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HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Mediated tabletop interaction in the biology lab: exploring the design space of the rabbit
Interactive surfaces like diffuse illumination tabletops (DIT) identify and track objects using multiple techniques like shape and color recognition, fiducial markers, electronic...
Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, Aurélien ...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Exploring micro-incentive strategies for participant compensation in high-burden studies
Micro-incentives represent a new but little-studied trend in participant compensation for user studies. In this paper, we use a combination of statistical analysis and models from...
Mohamed Musthag, Andrew Raij, Deepak Ganesan, Sant...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
HeatProbe: a thermal-based power meter for accounting disaggregated electricity usage
To promote energy-saving behavior, disaggregating electricity usage is critical for increasing consumer awareness of energy usage behavior. This study proposes HeatProbe, a therma...
Bo-Jhang Ho, Hsin-Liu Cindy Kao, Nan-Chen Chen, Ch...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
DrawerBrowser: practical picture browser for finding items in drawers
We propose a practical picture browser for finding items in drawers, DrawerBrowser, which is designed through observations of daily activities. Author Keywords Storage box, pictur...
Keisuke Kambara, Koji Tsukada
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Towards qualitative assessment of weight lifting exercises using body-worn sensors
Sports exercises are beneficial for general health and fitness. Some exercises such as weight lifting are particularly errorprone and using incorrect techniques can result in seri...
Eduardo Velloso, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
The social fMRI: measuring, understanding, and designing social mechanisms in the real world
A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to design and execution of structured experim...
Nadav Aharony, Wei Pan, Cory Ip, Inas Khayal, Alex...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
LightWave: using compact fluorescent lights as sensors
In this paper, we describe LightWave, a sensing approach that turns ordinary compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs into sensors of human proximity. Unmodified CFL bulbs are shown ...
Sidhant Gupta, Ke-Yu Chen, Matthew S. Reynolds, Sh...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Haptic reassurance in the pitch black for an immersive theatre experience
An immersive theatre experience was designed to raise awareness and question perceptions of ‘blindness’, through enabling both sighted and blind members to experience a simila...
Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi,...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Are you close with me? are you nearby?: investigating social groups, closeness, and willingness to share
As ubiquitous computing becomes increasingly mobile and social, personal information sharing will likely increase in frequency, the variety of friends to share with, and range of ...
Jason Wiese, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lorrie Faith Cra...