As digital technologies proliferate in the home, the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community has turned its attention from the workplace and productivity tools towards domestic design environments and non-utilitarian activities. In the workplace, ...

The goal of this workshop is to identify ten guiding principles for designing multimodal user interfaces. Researchers will use these principles to identify topics requiring further research. Practitioners will use these principles to generate guidelines ...

This workshop will seek to understand the roles and demands placed on users of security systems, and explore design solutions that can assist in making security systems usable and effective. In addition to examining end-users, this workshop will also ...

We use the term "intercultural" instead of "cultural" to emphasis the dialogical relationship of at least two participants from different cultures in computer-mediated communication and cooperation contexts. Supporting intercultural computer-mediated ...

This one-day workshop focuses on how scenarios are being used in industrial projects effectively and efficiently. The scope includes the overlapping concerns of: (1) deployment (2) method integration (3) craft and quality, and (4) tailing to various ...

This workshop will explore a diversity of perspectives on Patterns and Patterns Languages for HCI as well as the requirements for software tools needed to improve the effectiveness of both pattern creation and pattern use. Through discussion of ...

The present workshop aims to form a community of individuals interested in exploring the user implications of personalized eCommerce applications. People working in industry, academia, and government are welcomed to participate. The aim of the two-day ...

Event-based programming has been studied little, yet recent work suggests that language paradigm can predict programming strategies and performance. A contextual inquiry of four expert programmers using the Alice 3D programming environment was performed ...

The orthography of Chinese is remarkably different from that of English. Does it have implications for human-computer interaction? This paper presents an empirical study in which location learning of Chinese menu items and location learning of English ...

In the future, ubiquitous applications, services and environments will need adaptivity and context awareness in order to adapt to their users' requirements and needs. Before these kinds of applications can be developed, we need to know when adaptivity ...

We studied the effects of varying the fidelity and automation levels of a Ubicomp application prototype. Our results show that the interactive prototype captured the same usability issues that the paper prototype studies did and more. We found that ...

This paper describes the results of a Wizard of Oz study of people's search behavior using BuddySystem, a proximity-sensing system designed to help end-users locate people, places, and things. BuddySystem uses distance estimation based on signal ...

Using role play at every stage of the design process has been a vital tool for IDEO in working with clients and users. With the dual properties of bringing participants into the moment and making shared activities physical rather than just mental, role ...

A toilet is not only a place where people answer calls of nature. It is also a place for contemplation and reflection - and a place where people read information. But bringing things to read into a public toilet is not always socially accepted and it ...

To make human computer interaction more transparent, different modes of communication need to be explored. We present eyeCOOK, a multimodal attentive cookbook to help a non-expert computer user cook a meal. The user communicates using eye-gaze and ...

The Discovery Point prototype allows art museum visitors to hear stories about a work of art without burdening them with lengthy commentary. It is simple and compact; it has only four buttons and can be worn around the neck. It is a nearly invisible ...

Ubiquitous computing is increasingly becoming reality, even for people outside of research. A group that will have to face the challenges of this new technology is product and industrial designers. To get a designer's view of ubiquitous computing, we ...

iCAP is a system that assists users in prototyping context-aware applications. iCAP supports sketching for creating input and output devices, and using these devices to design interaction rules, which can be prototyped in a simulated or real context-...

Nostalgia is a prototype which users can use for listening to old news and music from the twentieth century. The design of Nostalgia is an attempt to design an artefact that in a seamless and simple way can trigger the memory of past events both ...

For digital products, the relationship between the hardware and the software is important but their integration is largely achieved in the later phase of the design process. This paper presents new prototyping methods that allow digital product ...