ASIAN-CHI

People tend to face difficulties while speaking, owing to excessive tension. To relieve this tension, we propose a method to alter their voice such that it appears more confident and feed this voice back to the speaker in real time. As determining the ...

The situation of lecture, sometimes we also call presentation, talk, speech especially in business conference, haven't change for long time. Although, there are some unsolved issue, for attending lecture of both speaker and audience, that speaker can't ...

In this paper, we propose a method to automatically assign attributes to guidance information and automatic authoring method of information according to user attributes. This makes it possible to provide an information guidance system with low cost. Also,...

Thumb based interaction is becoming increasingly popular in mobile devices. However, the interaction still remains slow, ambiguous, and error-prone. This paper presents an exploratory user experiment results of one-thumb pointing and dragging task ...

In this paper, we propose a feeling-sharing system called PICALA, which can register the feelings of audiences during public presentations. We designed and implemented a system in which the colors of the light bulbs near the screen changed by clicking ...

People make choice of a keyboard for various features such as key arrangement, repulsion strength, stroke depth, and stroke sound. Currently these features depend on hardware; however, if a physical keyboard can be customized with software, users will be ...

Giving computers the ability to learn from demonstrations is important for users to perform complex tasks. In this paper, we present an intelligent self-learning interface for dynamic human pose recognition. We capture 20 samples for an unknown pose to ...

Cricket is the most popular game in the developing countries of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used form of entertainment in the developing countries of South Asia. As sports are one of ...

Emotions are integral to the social media user experience; we express our feelings, react to posted content and communicate with emoji. This may lead to emotional contagion and undesirable behaviors such as cyberbullying and flaming. Nearly real-time ...

Video comparison is a common task that people engage in when interacting with video contents, for instance, in video browsing and video editing. However, there exists little guidance to prompt and assist designers about a comparison task when designing ...

Among the barriers of many developing countries, one of the major problems is that a huge portion of women are still confined within the boundary of their home. A nation can in no way progress without the contribution of such a huge portion of population ...

Socio-educational background plays an influential role in the success of a studentś engineering schooling. These socio-educational backgrounds are of more diverse nature in developing countries like Bangladesh. The fact that, tertiary education is given ...

Commitment devices-a self-imposed contract that helps an individual stick to a plan of action-have been widely used to make a positive influence on one's behavior change. We analyze commitment contract posts in StickK.com, an online behavior change ...

The public's ever-growing interest in health has led the well-being industry to explosive growth over the years. This propelled activity trackers as one of the trendiest items among the current day wearable devices. Seeking new opportunities for ...

Disasters are constantly affecting Asia. To minimize the damage, it is important to have an immediate and effective response, which requires multiple stakeholders of the disaster scenarios to communicate. After identifying stakeholders and their needs ...

Technology intervention can play an important role during natural disasters. Flash flood, a major natural disaster taking place in Bangladesh, can be supported by continuous water level monitoring and notification based system. A low-cost sensor based ...

The purpose of paper is to improve the limitations of current augmented reality technology in traditional handicraft learning. We propose a traditional handcraft mobile learning mode based on WebAR technology. Firstly, we analyzed that the current ...

Online abusive or hateful speech detection in different languages on Social Networking Sites (SNS) have drawn the attention of researchers recently. Hateful comments in public Facebook pages ignite social mishaps in Bangladesh. In this paper, we have ...

The critical steps of knowledge sharing process in hospital is to change tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge (externalization) and use that explicit knowledge to improve tacit knowledge (internalization). As we know technology in the medical field is ...

Challenges faced by the Indonesian tertiary education in implementing mobile learning are mainly related to pedagogical problems rather than technological ones. This preliminary study has identified several problems faced by the tertiary students in ...

In this paper, we highlighted the importance of User Experience (UX) sketching as one of the skillsets required for UX researchers in project development especially in low participatory design awareness countries like Malaysia. This is due to the results ...

This paper introduces our early work on designing a remote application for tuberculous (TB) treatment. By using contextual inquiry, we obtain information and insights about the Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOTS) treatment for TB patients to ...

This paper presents a multi-mobile system that allows users to come together with their mobile devices in an ad-hoc manner, and integrates together as one seamless display surface with multi-touch capabilities. Typically, gaps and bezels between the ...

Our research team developed a test question browser app for test-takers with print disabilities. This technology had to fully overcome three challenges: (1) the characteristic rigorousness and fairness demanded of East Asian university entrance exams, (2)...