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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Teaching and Learning HCI
We consider how to teach effectively with particular reference to HCI. HCI can be taught to explicitly empower students to engage with their own learning. Further, HCI motivates be...
Harold W. Thimbleby
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
DiamondTheater: A System for Reproducing Theater and Supporting Creative Activities
This paper describes a system called DiamondTheater that supports creative activities in theater using a tabletop tangible interface. This system is used to aid in the planning of ...
Tatsushi Takeuchi, Koichiro Watanabe, Tomoo Inoue,...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Social-Technical Tools for Collaborative Sensemaking and Sketching
Sensemaking is a deliberate effort to understand events or information, and a sketch is an exploratory graphic composition of a concept or observation. Within the architecture doma...
James Sullivan, Meredith Banasiak, Christopher Mes...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Using Activity Descriptions to Generate User Interfaces for ERP Software
Delivering tailor-made ERP software requires automation of screen and printed report creation to be cost effective. Screens generated directly from data structures tend to have poo...
Timothy O'Hear, Yassin Boudjenane
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
ImproV: A System for Improvisational Construction of Video Processing Flow
ImproV is a video compositing system for live video. It uses a dataflow diagram to represent the video processing flow and allows performers to edit the diagrams even while the vid...
Atsutomo Kobayashi, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Developing, Deploying and Assessing Usage of a Movie Archive System among Students of Film Studies
This paper describes our work in developing a movie browser application for students of Film Studies at our University. The aim of our work is to address the issues that arise when...
Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Alan F. Smeaton, Hyowon Lee, ...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
An Information Visualization Approach to Hospital Shifts Scheduling
Abstract. Scheduling staff shift work in a hospital ward is a well-known problem in the operation research field but, as such, it is very often studied from the algorithmic point o...
Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costa...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Studying Reactive, Risky, Complex, Long-Spanning, and Collaborative Work: The Case of IT Service Delivery
Abstract. IT service delivery is challenging to study. It is characterized by interacting systems of technology, people, and organizations. The work is sometimes reactive, sometime...
Eser Kandogan, Eben M. Haber, John H. Bailey, Paul...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A New Approach to Design an Interactive System for Molecular Analysis
The rapid evolution of molecule's imaging and observation's techniques has caused a growing interest in studying molecular structures. Naturally, scientists have turned t...
Mouna Essabbah, Samir Otmane, Joan Hérisson...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Accessing e-Learning Systems via Screen Reader: An Example
The evolution of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the rapid growth of the Internet have impelled the pervasive diffusion of e-Learning systems. This is a grea...
Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporin...