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HCI
2009
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A Study on the Compatibility of Ubiquitous Learning (u-Learning) Systems at University Level
: Graz University of Technology has a long tradition in the design, development and research of university wide Learning Management Systems (LMS). Inspired by the iPhone Style, the...
Martin Ebner, Christian Stickel, Nick Scerbakov, A...
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
A Semantic Accessibility Assessment Environment for Design and Development for the Web
The Web is now increasingly being accessed by many people with disabilities. Thus, the great heterogeneity of Web application technologies as
Konstantinos Votis, Rui Lopes, Dimitrios Tzovaras,...
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Social Practice: Becoming Enculturated in Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract. We present a new approach to the design, development and evaluation of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) that allows them to index identity through culturally and soc...
Justine Cassell
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
A Computational Implementation of a Human Attention Guiding Mechanism in MIDAS v5
In complex human-machine systems, the human operator is often required to intervene to detect and solve problems. Given this increased reliance on the human in these critical human...
Brian F. Gore, Becky L. Hooey, Christopher D. Wick...
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Database-Driven Grasp Synthesis and Ergonomic Assessment for Handheld Product Design
Recently, simulation-based ergonomic assessments for handheld products, such as mobile phones, have seen a growing interest and have been increasingly studied. In these studies, th...
Keisuke Kawaguchi, Yui Endo, Satoshi Kanai
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
The Pluses and Minuses of Obtaining Measurements from Digital Scans
Digital scanners are commonplace and are used in many different applications to obtain three-dimensional shapes and linear and circumferential measurements. Even though scanners ca...
Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, Channa P. Witana, Jianhu...
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
The Five Commandments of Activity-Aware Ubiquitous Computing Applications
Recent work demonstrates the potential for extracting patterns from users' behavior as detected by sensors. Since there is currently no generalized framework for reasoning abo...
Nasim Mahmud, Jo Vermeulen, Kris Luyten, Karin Con...
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
On the Gap between Automated and In-Vivo Evaluations of Web Accessibility
In this paper we present an accessibility analysis framework for the specification of Web accessibility evaluation scenarios that differentiates the requirements of users with disa...
Rui Lopes, Luís Carriço
HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Identifying Proper Scales on Digital Maps for In-Vehicle Navigation Systems
Abstract. Current commercial mobile navigation systems often use a predetermined scale selection schema without considering differences in spatial complexity of locations. To ident...
Anna Wu, Xiaolong Zhang
HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Wind display device for locomotion interface in a virtual environment
This paper describes development of a wind display system for the TreadPort virtual environment locomotion interface, which is cumulatively known as the TreadPort Active Wind Tunn...
Sandip D. Kulkarni, Charles Fisher, Eric R. Pardyj...