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BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Struggling with gift-giving obligations: when mobile messages are too laborious to reciprocate
Messaging with new media should be fun, but sometimes participating in conversations can become a burden for users due to the effort required. In this paper, examples of such situ...
Antti Salovaara
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed cognition and mobile healthcare work
In this paper, we look at the application of the DiCoT methodology [4] to the analysis of a mobile healthcare setting. While the methodology includes a set of principles and theme...
Joseph McKnight, Gavin Doherty
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring the impulsion and vibration effects of tactile patterns
This paper explores the impulsion and vibration properties of different tactile patterns (icons). These properties describe the unique movements of the pins with different values ...
Muhammad Tahir, Gilles Bailly, Eric Lecolinet
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Workshop HCI for medicine and health care (HCI4MED)
Ensuring good usability can be seen as the key success factor in our whole digital world: technology must support people. In particular, Medicine and Healthcare are currently subj...
Andreas Holzinger, Harold W. Thimbleby, Russell Be...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
HCI for technology enhanced learning
The involvement of technology to support and enhance learning is ever increasing; for example moving from the traditional blackboard to electronic whiteboards, from printed books ...
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Charles van der Mast, Annett...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Sharing vocabularies: tag usage in CiteULike
CiteULike is a collaborative tagging web site which lets users enter academic references into a database and describe these references using tags (categorizations of their own cho...
Sylvie Noël, Russell Beale
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Experiences in designing personal health assistants for the impending aged generation
Our work aims to address the problems of designing health assistant applications that run on mobile devices. We discuss the lessons learnt through the design of a mobile applicati...
Dina Ahmad, Andreas Komninos, Lynne Baillie
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Creating creative processes: a workshop demonstrating a methodological approach for subjects between the sciences and the arts
There is a lack of `explicit education' of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. This is important for not only art pra...
Carola Boehm
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Walk 2 Win: towards designing a mobile game for elderly's social engagement
In this paper we describe a user-centered approach to designing and evaluating a socially interactive mobile game for the elderly. The objective of the game is to encourage the el...
Omar Mubin, Suleman Shahid, Abdullah Al Mahmud
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Eunomia: toward a framework for multi-touch information displays in public spaces
Multi-touch interaction techniques are becoming more widespread because of new industrial initiatives to make this hardware available and affordable for the consumer market. To co...
Tom Cuypers, Jan Schneider, Johannes Taelman, Kris...