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BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
PDP: pen driven programming
Programming is an activity centred primarily around the keyboard which is not necessarily the optimal input device for all users. Little research has taken place into alternative ...
Jonathan Frye, Björn Franke
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Critical issues in interaction design
Computing technology is now so entwined with everyday life that enquiries into human computer interaction (HCI) are also studies of society and culture Cultural and Critical theor...
Mark Blythe, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, A...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
An eye tracking study of how font size and type influence online reading
In order to maximize online reading performance and comprehension, how should a designer choose typographical variables such as font size and font type? This paper presents an eye...
David Beymer, Daniel M. Russell, Peter Z. Orton
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Efficiency of multimodal metaphors in the presentation of learning information
The comparative study described in this paper has been conducted to investigate the effect of including multimodal metaphors on the usability of e-learning interfaces. Two indepen...
Marwan Alseid, Dimitrios Rigas
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Why an emergency alert system isn't adopted: the impact of socio-technical context
The purpose of this study is to understand the laggard adoption of an SMS-based emergency alert system on a university campus. Based on findings from in-depth interviews and a foc...
Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Jennifer J. Preece
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Designing for people who do not read easily
Many people do not read easily for all sorts of reasons: social and cultural, because of impairments, or because of their context. Even in the area of impairments, design for peop...
Caroline Jarrett, Katie Grant, B. L. William Wong,...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Involvement in video material: concept mapping
Involvement is an important mediating factor in judgements concerning user experience. Concept mapping was used to further understand and define the construct of involvement withi...
Nele Van den Ende, Jettie Hoonhout, Lydia Meesters
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Are you searching for ways to find information?
Effective information retrieval is important not only for its own sake but also for improving our understanding and allowing us to evolve our information into knowledge and wisdom...
Colin Bird
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Challenges of evaluating the information visualisation experience
Information Visualisation (InfoVis) is defined as an ive visual representation of abstract data. We view the user’s interaction with InfoVis tools as an experience which is made...
Sarah Faisal, Paul A. Cairns, Ann Blandford
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
User test of soccer highlights application
This paper describes an evaluation of a consumer application for soccer highlights detection, which combines advanced user interaction with an underlying automatic highlights dete...
Lu Wang, Pedro Fonseca, Bas Zoetekouw