This workshop challenges design practitioners and researchers to begin creating a unified framework for the practice of experience design.

Internet-based, mobile and pervasive technologies provide the means for older people to establish and maintain intergenerational relationships over long distances. However the significance of this intergenerational context has been largely ignored when ...

This workshop will identify best practices for longitudinal research through an in-depth exploration of methods and metrics for collecting and analyzing user data over time. This is the fourth event in an ongoing effort by the organizers to enhance our ...

Researchers in human-computer interaction and allied fields are increasingly interested in using new sensing capabilities to create context-aware interfaces and devices for the home. Data from sensors worn on the body or installed in an environment can ...

This workshop continues the dialog on exploring the challenges in applying, extending, and inventing appropriate methods and contributions of Humancentered Computing (HCC) to International economic and community development, borne out of tremendously ...

Location-based services are becoming increasingly Web-based, as a result of the availability of networked mobile devices and mobile Internet access. The "Location and the Web (LocWeb)" workshop targets the capabilities and constraints of Web-based ...

This paper describes a pilot study of a computer simulation called WIIS, which is designed to extend students' learning experience of the sizes of the objects beyond human vision. By interacting with a simulation that incorporates temporal, aural, and ...

Online voice conversations are becoming ever more popular. People have been logging online text conversations, but what about voice conversations? Walter Ong simply states, "written words are residue. Oral tradition has no such residue or deposit" [6]. ...

We describe a technique for preserving and presenting context and history while navigating web resources described by keywords. We use tagging and tag clouds as an application area for our technique. The technique is illustrated by employing it in a ...

Second Skin aims to combine three-dimensional motion tracking with real-time tactile feedback for the purpose of improving users' motor-learning ability. The system tracks a user's body and limb movements as he or she is performing an action, and the ...

The proliferation of portable devices has transformed our everyday practices, blurring second and third places. However, almost no research exists on how the perpetual possession of devices impacts how we escape them. In this paper, we explore the ...

Traditional photo albums are important not only for storing and organizing photographs but also for their ability to display photos in an aesthetically pleasing manner. A beautiful photo album augments the browsing experience for individual recollection ...

Audio guides are a common way to provide museum visitors with an opportunity for personalized, self-paced information retrieval. However, this personalization conflicts with some of the reasons many people go to museums, i.e., to socialize, to be with ...

We introduce a mixed physical and digital programming environment for children to control robotic characters. We present our design rationale, our initial prototype, report the results from our initial evaluation, and discuss ongoing work.

Montage is a platform for rendering multiple pages of web content on large tiled displays (several desktop LCDs arranged in a spatially contiguous matrix). We discuss the advantages of data visualization using a newsstand metaphor, showing many content ...

Drawing on existing design approaches, this paper argues for the experiential desirability and critical importance--in terms of environmental sustainability--of designing for reflection on everyday material things themselves. This paper motivates and ...

In this work-in-progress report we present the results of a preliminary analysis of a set of fieldwork studies conducted in collaboration with a firefighter school and a firefighter brigade. To inspire the design of ubiquitous computing systems, we ...

Users generally have difficulty understanding and managing computer security tasks. We examined Nintendo's Brain Age games for ways to help users remember more secure passwords. Instead, we found design elements that encouraged users to continually ...

A first-person view is often used in games to enhance players' sense of presence. Camera movements are added to provide a walking sensation when the player is moving around. Several variations of camera movement are used in current games to simulate ...

In this paper we describe the prototype of an archive of short movies. The project proposes two original solutions for implementing the interface of this archive: an organic metaphor and a hypervisual navigation mechanism.