This two-day workshop will advance discussion on the role of public interfaces in engaging citizens within the urban context. The aim is to determine how technology can help to de...
Michele F. Chang, Katrina Jungnickel, Chet Orloff,...
We present results of a study that considers (a) gestures outside the context of a specific implementation and (b) their use in supporting secondary, rather than primary tasks in ...
In this paper we present "Homie" an artificial companion for elderly people. Our approach emphasizes amusement and benefit - amusement in form of entertainment and benef...
Drawing on ongoing ethnographic investigations into home life, this paper presents detailed findings from a preliminary examination of refrigerator surfaces. The use and organizat...
We describe studies of preferences about information sharing aimed at identifying fundamental concerns with and at understanding how people might abstract the details of sharing i...