HCI continues to grow in popularity amongst commercial practitioners, many of whom have no formal training or education in HCI. Conferences, such as HCI 2007, offer an attractive means for practitioners to increase their knowledge and skills. However, many such practitioners can find it difficult to understand how research presentations relate to their specific needs. They often fail to make th...

When the user interface (UI) has to be specified, a picture is worth a thousand words and the worst thing a humancomputer interaction (HCI) expert can do is attempt to write a natural language specification for it. Nevertheless, this practice is still common and it is therefore a difficult task to move from text-based requirements and problemspace concepts to a final UI design, and then back ag...

This paper reports findings from a study designed to gain broader understanding of sensemaking activities using the Data/Frame Theory as the analytical framework. Although this theory is one of the dominant models of sensemaking, it has not been extensively tested with a range of sensemaking tasks. The tasks discussed here focused on making sense of structures rather than processes or narrative...

Abstract ‘Time’ and ‘temporality’ are increasingly addressed in human-computer interaction (HCI) research. From issues related to mapping visualizing data along timelines via explorations of temporality as a design material studies lag the rhythms work, time is recurring perspective HCI In fact, has been aspect research for past 30 years. Based on this continuous growing interest research, we f...

This theoretical essay builds on existing literature to draw out the consequences of dehumanizing and disseminating autism discourses within field human-computer interaction (HCI). Focusing mainly narratives in HCI that frame autistic people as or like machines, we explore how dominant constructions work normalize field’s complicity violent intervention paradigms, despite researchers’ well-mean...

Probabilistic algorithms o er a means of computing that works with the grain of analogue hardware, rather than against it. This paper proposes the use of such an algorithm in applications where the advantages of analogue hardware are most likely to be realised.

Differences between solution and solid state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of some amphetamines namely, 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine HCI, (R.S)-MDA HCI, the methyl derivative 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine x HCI, (R,S)-MDMA x HCI, the ethyl derivative, (R,S)-MDEA x HCI, and the analogues (R,S)-methamphetamine HCI, (-)-ephedrine x HCI (the 3R,2S enantiomer as numbered here), an...

Researchers have developed many devices and applications for smart homes to control home’s appliances. The main goal of this research is to propose a touch-based interface (namely, NISHA) for smart homes to meet user needs and requirements and is able to control any appliance in the house. This study is designed for people and circumstances in the Middle East countries (Jordan and West Bank) an...