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Drama project is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the Academy of Finland and run by HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) and Helsinki Polytechnic degree programme in Performing arts. Projects focus is people over fifty years and at their attitudes and opinions about retirement. Members of four work communities consisting of 178 users have been studied. In this pape...

This research looks at design methods for children technologies. It takes a User-Centred Design approach, where the involvement of the users is essential to the achievement of satisfactory products.

This article explores the use of various learning technologies as tools for facilitating learner-centered teaching. The article offers another perspective on the scholarship of teaching with technology—through discussion of various theoretical models of learner-centered teaching, the role of technology on the student/instructor relationships, the impact on technology in different educational se...

We describe a system which ranks humanprovided paraphrases of noun compounds, where the frequency with which a given paraphrase was provided by human volunteers is the gold standard for ranking. Our system assigns a score to a paraphrase of a given compound according to the number of times it has co-occurred with other paraphrases in the rest of the dataset. We use these co-occurrence statistic...

Pilot application projects will be the major means for stimulating collaboration between users, suppliers and researchers. Building on the successful LRE scheme, these projects will provide a more user-centered context and encourage a coordinated and market-driven approach to RTD tasks, and at the same time demonstrate and validate the integration of language components within information and c...

Goal: The use of an online game for learning in higher education aims to make complex theoretical knowledge more approachable. Permanent repetition will lead to a more in-depth learning. Objective: To gain insight into whether and to what extent, online games have the potential to contribute to student learning in higher education. Experimental Setting: The online game was used for the first ti...

Improving the strategic impact of user-centred design in development organisations has proved to be a challenge. An effective step to start any improvement process is to perform current state analysis. Our research focused on examining and understanding the existing knowledge on how to perform current state analysis of usercentred design, or as we call, usability capability assessment (UCA). We...

A new discipline, Usability Design, is proposed as an extension to Rational Unified Process (RUP). The aim is to make RUP more user-centred. The discipline springs out of best practices for user-centred design and contains activities that have been carefully tested. Five new roles are introduced to take responsibility for the different activities. An example is given to show the content of the ...

Fast production of a solution is a necessity in the world of competitive IT consulting business today. In engagements where early user interface design mock-ups are needed to visualize proposed business processes, the need to quickly create UI becomes prominent very early in the process. Our work aims to speed up the UI design process, enabling rapid creation of lowfidelity UI design with tradi...