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CANDC
2005
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The homespun museum: computers, fabrication, and the design of personalized exhibits
The traditional view of the “home computer” is as a selfcontained appliance: computation, on this view, is something that takes place within a desktop box, and that produces i...
Michael Eisenberg, Nwanua Elumeze, Leah Buechley, ...
COLING
2002
14 years 11 months ago
An Inference-based Approach to Dialogue System Design
We present an architecture for spoken dialogue systems where first-order inference (both theorem proving and model building) plays a crucial role in interpreting utterances of dia...
Johan Bos, Tetsushi Oka
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Design documentaries: inspiring design research through documentary film
This paper shows how we can take inspiration and use techniques from documentary film in pursuing user research. Documentary filmmaking has a long history of portraying everyday l...
Bas Raijmakers, William W. Gaver, Jon Bishay
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Supporting carers in their caring role through design
Carers are people who look after family, partners or friends who could not manage without them because of frailness, illness or disability. Our contribution is to show the potenti...
Andrea Taylor, Richard Wilson, Stefan Agamanolis
NIME
2004
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Don't Just Play it, Grow it! : Breeding Sound Synthesis and Performance Mappings
This paper describes the use of evolutionary and artificial life techniques in sound design and the development of performance mapping to facilitate the real-time manipulation of ...
James Mandelis, Phil Husbands