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CANDC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Software for systematic and imaginative exploration
This paper describes a software system that has been designed to enhance individual creativity. It was once thought that the era of information visualization would empower people ...
Daryl H. Hepting
CANDC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Environments for creativity: a lab for making things
We have, with our students, engaged in cross-disciplinary research in design. We describe parameters and principles that we have found helpful in organizing and conducting this ki...
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D. Gross
CANDC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Performative roles of materiality for collective creativity
This paper seeks to develop a better understanding of the contribution of materiality for creativity in collaborative settings, exploring the ways in which it provides resources f...
Giulio Jacucci, Ina Wagner
CANDC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Eye-balls: juggling with the virtual
The authors will introduce and demonstrate a novel computer vision based system for augmented performance. Unlike previous systems, which have primarily focused on `high art'...
Joe Marshall, Steve Benford, Tony P. Pridmore
CANDC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The resourcefulness of everyday design
We discuss our study that looks at family members as everyday designers. We explain the design actions of family members to be creative, as evidenced by the resourceful appropriat...
Ron Wakkary, Leah Maestri
ASSETS
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Data visualisation and data mining technology for supporting care for older people
: The overall purpose of the research discussed here is the enhancement of home-based care by revealing individual patterns in the life of a person, through modelling of the "...
Nubia M. Gil, Nick A. Hine, John L. Arnott, Julien...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Equipping designers by simulating the effects of visual and hearing impairments
This paper describes a software tool that demonstrates the effects of common vision and hearing impairments on image and sound files. This helps designers to understand and empath...
Joy Goodman-Deane, Patrick Langdon, P. John Clarks...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
SIBYLLE: a system for alternative communication adapting to the context and its user
In this paper, we describe the latest version of SIBYLLE, an AAC system that permits persons suffering from severe physical disabilities to enter text with any computer applicatio...
Tonio Wandmacher, Jean-Yves Antoine, Franck Poirie...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Corpus studies in word prediction
Word prediction can be used to enhance the communication rate of people with disabilities who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. We use statistical meth...
Keith Trnka, Kathleen F. McCoy