Digital product development usually lacks tangible clues in which feature ideas to invest to improve usercenteredness. The Bet-Cost-Matrix method aims to face this issue and empower cross-functional teams to unveil assumptions or hidden risks by ...

Frustration often occur in an interaction with a technical device. It has a strong impact on the quality of interaction and should be carefully considered in planning how humans and machines should interact with each other.

In this study, the ...

Die Trainings-App ParkProTrain unterstützt Parkinson-Patienten dabei, aktivierende Sportübungen eigenständig und regelmäßig im häuslichen Alltag auszuführen. Dabei erhält der Patient einen auf seine Bedürfnisse abgestimmten Trainingsplan -- erstellt vom ...

Energy-related behavior in resource dependent systems (e.g. electric vehicles, houses, ships) is an important factor for the actual energy efficiency such systems can achieve. Energy feedback human-machine-interfaces (HMIs) can support the awareness of ...

There are different approaches in the literature for proposals for gestures are collected from potential users and then combined into a gesture set by considering different criteria (e.g. popularity of gestures). The effort for such surveys is high and ...

Like tool-tips, graphical representations of 3D gestures are an important component of intuitive user interfaces of gesture controlled systems. The purpose is to communicate how the gestures are to be performed. Although the representations aim at ...

Many museums exclude visually impaired people by offering only visual presentations of exhibition pieces. To improve the experience of the botanical garden in Würzburg for visually impaired people, we conducted a human centered design process with blind ...

The maker movement holds strong promise for enabling children to participate in empowering learning experiences through technology. Many researchers have identified different approaches to address making for children and educational approaches on ...

In this paper, we present three speculative scenarios that explore the future of living with shape-changing interfaces. Each scenario is concerned with one area of this potential future. Three areas, which originated in a workshop with 25 researchers, ...

Presence is a key variable in virtual reality (VR), however, it is a complex variable consisting of different aspects. The Multimodal Presence Scale (MPS) by Makransky, Lilleholt, and Aaby was developed to measure physical, social and self-presence. But ...

As part of some treatments of depression, patients are asked to keep an activity diary - currently on a sheet of paper - in which they log their activities, and their emotions or mood. However, this way of keeping an activity diary has many ...

Nurses who care about patients with functional disabilities are frequently required to transfer a patient from one place to another. To prevent nurses from injuring themselves during patient transfers, many government-supported schools in Germany ...