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BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
See the apple of my eye: baby storytelling in social space
People use media-sharing web sites to document their lives and those of their children for maintaining and strengthening social ties with people living away. It is clear then that...
Nazean Jomhari, Victor M. Gonzalez, Sri H. Kurniaw...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
How do people find information on a familiar website?
Previous research has investigated how people either navigate the web as a whole, or find information on websites of which they have little previous knowledge. However, it is now ...
Roy A. Ruddle
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A vision-based system for display interaction
This paper presents a system for interaction with a display via hand pointing, where a single CCD camera on top of the screen is directed towards the viewers. An attention mechani...
Björn Stenger, Thomas Woodley, Tae-Kyun Kim, ...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Narrative, memory and practice: tensions and choices in the use of a digital artefact
This paper reports on research into the use of SenseCam, a wearable automatic camera. Household members were given multiple SenseCams to enable an exploration of how the device wo...
Siân E. Lindley, Dave W. Randall, Wes Sharro...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Paper-based mixed reality sketch augmentation as a conceptual design support tool
This undergraduate student paper explores usage of mixed reality techniques as support tools for conceptual design. A proof-of-concept was developed to illustrate this principle. ...
G. J. D. dos Santos, Elisabeth M. A. G. van Dijk, ...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
"A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites
This study suggests reasons for the absence of a growing proportion of the population, the so-called baby boomers, from the otherwise highly popular social networking sites. We ex...
Vilma Lehtinen, Jaana Näsänen, Risto Sar...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Putting the physical into the digital: issues in designing hybrid interactive surfaces
Hybrid surfaces are interactive systems combining techniques of direct-manipulation multi-touch surface interaction with elements of tangible user interfaces (TUIs). The design sp...
David S. Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Nico...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating haptics for information discovery while walking
In this article we describe and evaluate a novel, low interaction cost approach to supporting the spontaneous discovery of geo-tagged information while on the move. Our mobile hap...
Simon Robinson, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Matt Jones
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Using technologies to support reminiscence
This paper is about the evolution of a system prototype called Pensieve whose goal is to support people's reminiscing practices. A number of technologies exist to manage memo...
Dan Cosley, Kathy Akey, Brian Alson, Jonathan Baxt...