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PUC
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Probing user values in the home environment within a technology driven Smart Home project
Smart Home technology looks set to become an increasingly common feature of domestic life. However commercial desire for technical innovation rather than explicit user needs are of...
Victoria Haines, Val Mitchell, Catherine Cooper, M...
ICMI
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Modeling culturally authentic style shifting with virtual peers
: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...
Justine Cassell, Kathleen Geraghty, Berto Gonzalez...
AVI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
About composing our own smart home
This paper reports on an empirical study designed as a follow-up of a theoretical model intended to support reasoning about the composition of smart artifacts by end-users. We hav...
Joëlle Coutaz, Emeric Fontaine, Nadine Mandra...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Comicboarding: using comics as proxies for participatory design with children
Comicboarding is a participatory design method that uses specially created comic books to generate engaging, productive brainstorming sessions with children. By leveraging known p...
Neema Moraveji, Jason Li, Jiarong Ding, Patrick O'...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Let's play chinese characters: mobile learning approaches via culturally inspired group games
In many developing countries such as India and China, low educational levels often hinder economic empowerment. In this paper, we argue that mobile learning games can play an impo...
Feng Tian, Fei Lv, Jingtao Wang, Hongan Wang, Wenc...