Imaginary Design Workbooks - Constructive Criticism and Practical Provocation
Explores critical design strategies using "imaginary design workbooks" to provoke innovative thinking about home hub technology, challenging the divide between constructive and critical design approaches.
Common Barriers to the Use of Patient-Generated Data Across Clinical Settings
Explores barriers to utilizing patient-generated data in healthcare, identifying common challenges across clinical settings and proposing a six-stage workflow model to improve integration and interpretation.
Your Eyes Tell - Leveraging Smooth Pursuit for Assessing Cognitive Workload
Explore how smooth pursuit eye movements can accurately predict cognitive workload, offering a novel approach for designing adaptive user interfaces and improving human-computer interaction.
Exploring Co-design with Breastfeeding Mothers
Insights on co-designing mobile apps for breastfeeding mothers, focusing on challenges, methodologies, and key factors to consider for effective user engagement and empowerment.
Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Navigate Virtual Reality with a Haptic and Auditory Cane Simulation
Innovative haptic controller simulates white cane interactions, allowing visually impaired users to navigate virtual environments using familiar skills, with physical, vibrotactile, and auditory feedback.
DataInk - Direct and Creative Data-Oriented Drawing
DataInk: A novel system for creating expressive data visualizations through direct pen and touch input, bridging the gap between automated tools and manual sketching for flexible, creative data representation.
Framed Guessability - Improving the Discoverability of Gestures and Body Movements for Full-Body Interaction
Explores a design methodology for creating intuitive gestures and body movements in full-body interaction systems, enhancing user experience with body-sensing technologies.
CommunityCrit - Inviting the Public to Improve and Evaluate Urban Design Ideas through Micro-Activities
Explore a system for engaging communities in urban design through micro-activities, offering insights on public participation, project awareness, and diverse skill levels in planning processes.
Crowdsourcing Rural Network Maintenance and Repair via Network Messaging
Explores crowdsourcing network repair in rural Philippines using SMS, revealing community eagerness and capacity for resolving common failures when repairs align with local experiences.
Social Computing-Driven Activism in Youth Empowerment Organizations - Challenges and Opportunities
Explores challenges and opportunities in using social networking apps for youth-led activism, highlighting tensions between youth and staff in organizational contexts.
A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Explores wage distribution and factors affecting earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk, revealing low median wages and discussing ways to improve conditions for crowd workers.
Playing with Streakiness in Online Games - How Players Perceive and React to Winning and Losing Streaks in League of Legends
Explore player perceptions and reactions to winning and losing streaks in League of Legends, examining impacts on player experience and strategies for managing streakiness.
Communicating Awareness and Intent in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction
Exploring interfaces for autonomous vehicles to communicate awareness and intent to pedestrians at crosswalks, enhancing safety and trust in human-vehicle interactions.
Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games
Explores how visual annotations in multiplayer games improve communication, planning, and team performance. Findings show reduced frustration and faster goal completion with collaborative annotation tools.
Conversations in the Eye of the Storm - At-Scale Features of Conversational Structure in a High-Tempo, High-Stakes Microblogging Environment
Analyzing Twitter conversations during Hurricane Sandy reveals expanded interactions and slower-paced exchanges during peak emergency, suggesting increased reliance on online relationships amid uncertainty.
Selection-based Text Entry in Virtual Reality
Explores six methods for text input in VR using virtual keyboards, comparing performance and user preferences to guide optimal selection for different scenarios and available resources.
COMPASS - Rotational Keyboard on Non-Touch Smartwatches
Innovative text entry technique for non-touch smartwatches using rotational bezel and multiple cursors. Achieves 12.5 WPM after practice, offering alternative input method for various scenarios.
MagicFace - Stepping Into Character Through Augmented Reality Mirror
Explore how augmented reality face transformation affects user perception and behavior in cultural settings, examining its potential for educational and immersive experiences.
A City in Common - A Framework to Orchestrate Large-Scale Citizen Engagement around Urban Issues
Framework for citizen sensing to address urban issues through community-managed resources. Empowers local communities to collect, share, and act on data for tackling problems like damp housing in Bristol.
Quantifying Aversion to Costly Typing Errors in Expert Mobile Text Entry
Explores how expert mobile typists adjust speed to minimize costly errors, presenting a model to estimate risk aversion effects on typing speed and its impact on maximum errorless typing speed predictions.
Holographic Whisper - Rendering Audible Sound Spots in Three-Dimensional Space by Focusing Ultrasonic Waves
Innovative spatial audio rendering technique using ultrasound to create focused sound points, offering improved audience selectivity and reduced ultrasound exposure compared to conventional methods.