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BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Breaking the campus bubble: informed, engaged, connected
This paper introduces UniVote, a system supporting mobile phone-based interaction with public displays. The case study carried out at Lancaster University indicates that the campu...
Nick Day, Corina Sas, Alan J. Dix, Motoko Toma, Ch...
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Ten emotion heuristics: guidelines for assessing the user's affective dimension easily and cost-effectively
Emotional appeal is a key dimension in user experience that often goes unmeasured in most user-centered design projects. This paper presents preliminary work for developing a set ...
Eva de Lera, Muriel Garreta Domingo
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
HCI 2.0?: usability meets web 2.0
The web has already dramatically changed society, but the web itself is changing. Web2.0 sites mean that users have become the producers of content and the designers of each other...
Alan J. Dix, Laura Cowen
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Head-shaped tangible interface for affective expression
A head shaped resin with several holes and equipped with a camera is used for facial expression synthesis through intuitive multiple finger contacts and gestures. The calibration ...
Christian Jacquemin
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Introducing HCI: a practitioner's guide
HCI continues to grow in popularity amongst commercial practitioners, many of whom have no formal training or education in HCI. Conferences, such as HCI 2007, offer an attractive ...
Steve Cummaford, John Long
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Investigating the usability of PDAs with ageing users
Mobile technologies have the potential to enhance the lives of ageing users, especially those who experience a decline in cognitive abilities. However, diminutive devices often pe...
Sheila Mc Carthy, Heather Sayers, Paul McKevitt
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Mapping the demographics of virtual humans
This paper presents a census of 147 virtual agents, by examining and reporting on their physical and demographical characteristics. The study shows that the vast majority of agent...
Rabia Khan, Antonella De Angeli
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A conference panel: but not as we know it!
This panel will take the form of a public debate about whether the conference of which it forms part has a future. Academic conferences are increasingly hard to cost-justify and g...
Tom McEwan, David England, Eamonn O'Neill, Nick Br...
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Usability: not as we know it!
YouTube has been the Internet success story of 2006. However, when subjected to conventional usability evaluation it appears to fail miserably. With this and other social Web serv...
Paula Alexandra Silva, Alan J. Dix