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HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Acoustic Modeling of Dialogue Elements for Document Accessibility
Pepi Stavropoulou, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgi...
HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Online BCI Implementation of High-Frequency Phase Modulated Visual Stimuli
Abstract. Brain computer interfaces (BCI) that use the steady-statevisual-evoked-potential (SSVEP) as neural source, offer two main advantages over other types of BCIs: shorter ca...
Danhua Zhu, Gary Garcia Molina, Vojkan Mihajlovic,...
HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
How Children Can Design the Future
Over the past 15 years, children have become more integrally involved in the design of their technology. In this paper, we present the idea that design partnering methods, specific...
Mona Leigh Guha, Allison Druin, Jerry Alan Fails
HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Proposal of BCM Evaluation Method Based on Disaster Scenario Simulation
Almost 20% of big earthquakes in the world occur in Japan. It becomes impossible for private companies and governments to carry out their business if they suffer from severe damage...
Ryuhei Kaneko, Yoshio Nakatani
HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Manual and Accelerometer Analysis of Head Nodding Patterns in Goal-oriented Dialogues
We studied communication patterns in face-to-face dialogues between people for the purpose of identifying conversation features that can be exploited to improve human-computer inte...
Masashi Inoue, Toshio Irino, Nobuhiro Furuyama, Ry...
HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
A Low-Cost Natural User Interaction Based on a Camera Hand-Gestures Recognizer
The search for new simplified interaction techniques is mainly motivated by the improvements of the communication with interactive devices. In this paper, we present an interactiv...
Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar, Thomas Burger, Franck Poi...
FGR
2011
IEEE
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Robust 3D hand tracking for human computer interaction
Abstract— We propose a system for human computer interaction via 3D hand movements, based on a combination of visual tracking and a cheap, off-the-shelf, accelerometer. We use a ...
Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Ian Reid
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
CORR
2011
Springer
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An Extended Framework for Measuring the Information Capacity of the Human Motor System
—Fitts’ law is a fundamental tool in measuring the capacity of the human motor system. It measures information throughput in terms of the tradeoff between the speed and accurac...
Teemu Roos, Antti Oulasvirta