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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Spearcon Performance and Preference for Auditory Menus on a Mobile Phone
This study investigates the use of spearcons as an auditory cue. It looks simultaneously at both performance and subjective preference of spearcons and text-to-speech (TTS). The st...
Bruce N. Walker, Anya Kogan
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Web-Based 3D System for Home Design
Buying a home is a big investment and is one of the most important decisions made in one's life. Home owners after purchasing the apartments are interested in having their own...
Anthony Chong, Ji-Hyun Lee, Jieun Park
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Some Pitfalls for Developing Enculturated Conversational Agents
A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behavi...
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Yukiko I. N...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Agent-Based Driver Abnormality Estimation
For enhancing current driver assistance and information systems with regard to the capability to recognize an individual driver's needs, we conceive a system based on fuzzy lo...
Tony Poitschke, Florian Laquai, Gerhard Rigoll
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Responding to Learners' Cognitive-Affective States with Supportive and Shakeup Dialogues
This paper describes two affect-sensitive variants of an existing intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor. The new versions of AutoTutor detect learners' boredom, confusi...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Scotty D. Craig, Karl Fike, Art...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
New Human-Computer Interactions Using Tangible Objects: Application on a Digital Tabletop with RFID Technology
This paper presents a new kind of interaction between users and a tabletop. The table described is interactive and associated with tangible and traceable objects using RFID technol...
Sébastien Kubicki, Sophie Lepreux, Yoann Le...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Addressing the Interplay of Culture and Affect in HCI: An Ontological Approach
Culture and affect are closely tied domains that have been considered separately in HCI until now. After carefully reviewing research done in each of those domains, a formal ontolo...
Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Susanne...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Trust in Online Technology: Towards Practical Guidelines Based on Experimentally Verified Theory
Abstract. A large amount of research attempts to define trust, yet relatively little research attempts to experimentally verify what makes trust needed in interactions with humans ...
Christian Detweiler, Joost Broekens
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Enhancing the Accessibility of Maps with Personal Frames of Reference
Abstract. The visualization of geographic information requires large displays. Even large screens can be insufficient to visualize e.g. a long route in a scale, such that all decis...
Falko Schmid