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BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Evaluating haptics for information discovery while walking
In this article we describe and evaluate a novel, low interaction cost approach to supporting the spontaneous discovery of geo-tagged information while on the move. Our mobile hap...
Simon Robinson, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Matt Jones
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Using technologies to support reminiscence
This paper is about the evolution of a system prototype called Pensieve whose goal is to support people's reminiscing practices. A number of technologies exist to manage memo...
Dan Cosley, Kathy Akey, Brian Alson, Jonathan Baxt...
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Dramaturgical capitalization of positive emotions: the answer for Facebook success?
Although user behavior in the popular Facebook social network site has been intensely investigated since the site came live in 2004, we know little about users' emotions and ...
Corina Sas, Alan J. Dix, Jennefer Hart, Ronghui Su
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Sketching sketching: outlines of a collaborative design method
In this paper, we describe three key areas in the literature where sketching has been seen as being beneficial to designers. We applied this knowledge in the user interface design...
Brock Craft, Paul A. Cairns
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Visible imagination: projected play
This paper presents a system for the exploration of projected interfaces. We describe our Visible Imagination (VI) platform combining a camera, projector and torch (flashlight) al...
David J. Chatting, Jon S. Sutton
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
DIY design process for interactive surfaces
This paper charts the design and build of two interactive tabletops that use infrared (IR) illumination techniques. One table implements fiducial tracking, whilst the other implem...
Jennifer G. Sheridan, James Tompkin, Abel Maciel, ...
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
An exploratory study of tag-based visual interfaces for searching folksonomies
Aesthetic features such as animation, 3D interaction, and visual metaphors are becoming commonplace in multimedia search interfaces. However, it is unclear which attributes are ne...
Javier Diaz, Keyun Hu, Melanie Tory
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Hospital user research using new media arts
This paper presents a comparative analysis of group interaction around two display types, shared and individual, using a `new media' arts application as a way to explore the ...
Cecily Morrison, Alan F. Blackwell
BCSHCI
2009
14 years 17 days ago
Low-fi skin vision: a case study in rapid prototyping a sensory substitution system
We describe the design process we have used to develop a minimal, twenty vibration motor Tactile Vision Sensory Substitution (TVSS) system which enables blind-folded subjects to s...
Jon Bird, Paul Marshall, Yvonne Rogers