an integrated program of standards, instruction, professional development, and assessments. The Pacesetter curriculum includes rigorous fourth-year high school courses in English and mathematics, and a third-level course in Spanish. The professional development component is the backbone of the Pacesetter program. This professional development focuses on innovative pedagogy and instructional str...

Notification systems are growing in use from home to the workplace. They are used to monitor stock prices, navigate in a vehicle, and to encourage collaboration at a job, among countless other applications. These systems must be developed and tested, but existing usability evaluation methods are not always useful. They fail to consider systems used in divided-attention tasks and the impact on p...

Volume 28, Number 2, June 2002 The literature on the evaluation of adolescent sexual health interventions is growing in both developed1 and developing countries.2 However, because few evaluations have shown an impact on behaviors, rigorous assessments of interventions that target adolescents are still needed. This study assesses the performance of four adolescent sexual health interventions imp...

1474-0346/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.aei.2011.02.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (B. Becerik-Gerbe Indoor location information is of great value to the building industry in improving the utilization and maintenance of facilities. The paper identifies previous academic accomplishments of radio frequency identification (RFID)-based indoor loc...

We are delighted to host the international workshop Re-Thinking Technology in Museums, made possible by the generous support of Convivio, the EU-sponsored Network for People-Centred Interactive Design. Over the past few years work at the Interaction Design Centre has dealt with a number of issues regarding the complex relationship between museums and galleries and interactive technologies. Wher...

This paper describes the optimum design of a permanent-magnet-assisted reluctance rotor of a 110 kW reluctance synchronous traction machine. Previous studies show that the performance of the pure reluctance synchronous machine drive deteriorates fast in the flux-weakening speed region. To address this problem, thin bonded permanent-magnet sheet material is used inside the flux barriers of the r...

The design of applications with multimodal interfaces currently implies complex handcrafting by interface experts, lack of compliance with industry standards of cost effectiveness, maintenance and user focus such as those achieved by the current User-Centered Design methods. This paper presents an initial step towards a design by-example approach, whereby the end-user’s multimodal preferences f...

This paper aims at presenting how performance evaluation of models can be used within the design process of interactive systems. We demonstrate how the use of a formal task model may enhance the design of interactive systems, by providing quantitative results on which designers may base their decisions. We also demonstrate that it is possible to describe both task and system models within the s...