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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Invoking emotional support in a health crisis
This dissertation research explores the invocation of emotional support from friends and family for parents who have a baby in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, through the use of t...
Wendy Moncur
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Child computer interaction
In this project an interactive computer system is designed that envisions to contribute to young children's musical education. From literature, requirements for musical inter...
Janet C. Read, Panos Markopoulos, Narcís Pa...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Media spaces: past visions, current realities, future promise
Established researchers and practitioners active in the development and deployment of media spaces review what seemed to be promised twenty years ago, what has actually been achie...
Ronald Baecker, Steve R. Harrison, William Buxton,...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
NomaticBubbles: visualizing communal whereabouts
This paper describes the design of the NomaticBubbles, a visualization that provides cues of communal whereabouts. Unlike most location displays showing whereabouts on a geographi...
Xianghua Ding, Donald J. Patterson
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing embodied interfaces for casual sound recording devices
In the Special Moment project we prototype and evaluate the design of interfaces for casual sound recording devices. These devices are envisioned to be used by a casual user to ca...
Ivan Poupyrev, Haruo Oba, Takuo Ikeda, Eriko Iwabu...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Brain-computer interfaces for HCI and games
In this workshop we study the research themes and the state-of-the-art of brain-computer interaction. Braincomputer interface research has seen much progress in the medical domain...
Anton Nijholt, Bernhard Graimann, Brendan Allison,...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Co-located group interaction design
This design theatre experience explores the use of choreographic improvisation exercises to reflect on the structures of interaction in a mobile, co-located group. The design tech...
Cecily Morrison, Alan F. Blackwell
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Surflex: a programmable surface for the design of tangible interfaces
In this paper we describe Surflex, a programmable surface for the design and visualization of physical forms. Surflex combines the physical properties of shape-memory alloy and fo...
Marcelo Coelho, Hiroshi Ishii, Pattie Maes
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Urban encounters: the game of real life
In this paper we describe our ongoing work on modelling urban encounters by extending Conway's Game of Life. We develop our model based on empirical data collected using a Ta...
Vassilis Kostakos
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Longitudinal usability data collection: art versus science?
Collecting usability data over time is increasingly becoming best practice in industry, but lacks "thought leadership" in current literature; few papers address the topi...
Misha W. Vaughan, Catherine Courage, Stephanie Ros...