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HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Distributed Intelligence and Scaffolding in Support of Cognitive Health
Computers have dramatically changed the social landscape and living practices in the 21st century. Most of those changes have empowered typically abled adults, while it is only in ...
Stefan Carmien, Randal A. Koene
EJASMP
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Physically Motivated Environmental Sound Synthesis for Virtual Worlds
A system is described for simulating environmental sound in interactive virtual worlds, using the physical state of objects as control parameters. It contains a unified framework ...
Dylan Menzies
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Reflecting human behavior to motivate desirable lifestyle
Ambient lifestyle feedback systems are embedded computer systems designed to motivate changes in a person's lifestyle by reflecting an interpretation of targeted behavior bac...
Tatsuo Nakajima, Vili Lehdonvirta, Eiji Tokunaga, ...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Some consideration on the (in)effectiveness of residential energy feedback systems
Energy feedback systems, particularly residential energy feedback systems (REFS), have emerged as a key area for HCI and interaction design. However, we argue that HCI researchers...
James Pierce, Chloe Fan, Derek Lomas, Gabriela Mar...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe