In the software engineering literature, many works claim that the use of design patterns improves the comprehensibility of programs and, more generally, their maintainability. Yet...
Animation or sound is often used in user interfaces as an attempt to improve users' perception and comprehension of evolving situations and support them in decision-making. Ho...
The implementation and use of new information technology initiate changes. These changes can be either of a technological nature (and often explicitly known), or of a social natur...
A system making optimal use of available information in incremental language comprehension might be expected to use linguistic knowledge together with current input to revise beli...
We describe AudioCave, an environment for exploring the impact of spatialising sonified graphs on a set of numerical data comprehension tasks. Its design builds on findings regard...