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BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
SMART: a SysteM of Augmented Reality for Teaching 2nd grade students
In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of SMART, an educational system that uses augmented reality for teaching 2nd grade-level concepts, adequate and integrated wit...
Rubina Freitas, Pedro Campos
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Design in evaluation: reflections on designing for children's technology
This paper reflects on the design value that emerges from evaluation methods used in the field of child computer interaction. The work is based around an evaluation study of a tan...
Emanuela Mazzone, Diana Yifan Xu, Janet C. Read
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Seeding without leading: making space for participant contribution in design elicitation techniques
As HCI embraces experience design, it will increasingly rely on new elicitation methods that are capable of drawing out the multi-faceted subjectivities of individuals without bei...
Ann Light, Pam Briggs, Karen Martin
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Using personas effectively
Personas are a powerful design and communication tool to help all those involved in the creation of interactive systems to better focus their efforts on their users. A persona is ...
Peter Bagnall
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Erotic life as a new frontier in HCI
In this paper we discuss how information technology impacts erotic life. This has been a neglected issue in most of the literature, even the literature on IT in the home. We argue...
Olav W. Bertelsen, Marianne Graves Petersen
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating advanced interaction techniques for navigating Google Earth
This paper presents the design and comparison of a mousebased interaction technique (hereafter IT) and two advanced IT, used in public spaces to support navigation in a 3D space. ...
Emmanuel Dubois, Philippe Truillet, Cédric ...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
News not noise: socially aware information filtering
An understanding of how people in social networks consume news media by and about their friends shows that information overload is soon going to be a major problem for many partic...
Jonathan Melhuish, Russell Beale
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Internalist and externalist HCI
The history of technology, as a discipline, supports alternate points of view termed internalist and externalist, which terms highlight an approximately similar division in points...
Harold W. Thimbleby, Will Thimbleby
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
The HCI lab at UNC Charlotte
At the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCILab) at UNC Charlotte, we investigate novel ways for people to interact with computers, and through computers with their environments. Ou...
Celine Latulipe, Heather Richter Lipford
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Mental health issues and pervasive computing
This poster describes work being undertaken in the use of pervasive computing for the treatment of mental health problems. The use of technology to help patients with psychologica...
David J. Haniff