A: Results And Conclusions Of Recent Work Previous work funded by EPSRC (GR/M89331) has validated a theoretical analysis of cutting in cinema film, which will in this project be applied to interface design. There are two main phases to the project. First, usability experiments will use display designs based upon existing commercial interfaces in which the dynamic aspects flout the theoretically...

The EasyLiving project is concerned with development of an architecture and technologies for intelligent environments which allow the dynamic aggregation of diverse I/O devices into a single coherent user experience. Components of such a system include middleware (to facilitate distributed computing), world modelling (to provide location-based context), perception (to collect information about ...

in this paper, we propose the mLUX framework, a model based on the user-centered design (UCD) framework, which is specifically for the development of mlearning applications. We present the results of four case studies conducted to develop m-learning applications in which the proposed mLUX framework was applied. The main goal of the proposed mLUX framework is to ensure that the stakeholders, esp...

Content-based multimedia retrieval requires an appropriate similarity model which reflects user preferences. When these preferences are unknown or when the structure of the data collection is unclear, retrieving the most preferable objects the user has in mind is challenging, as the notion of similarity varies from data to data, from task to task, and ultimately from user to user. Based on a sp...

Building a software system from COTS products does not change the importance nor the expense associated with maintenance, evolution and management. COTS-based systems must continue to satisfy evolving user requirements, failures of the system must be dealt with, the system must adapt to the ever-changing environment, and managers must be able to monitor and control the deployed system. These ac...

In this paper we present a tool for the evaluation of translation quality. First, the typical requirements of such a tool in the framework of machine translation (MT) research are discussed. We define evaluation criteria which are more adequate than pure edit distance and we describe how the measurement along these quality criteria is performed semi-automatically in a fast, convenient and above...

This paper presents results of a user study to investigate detailed end-user requirements for reconfigurable radio systems. 23 participants contributed to this user study in scenario-based interviews. These results focus upon the information and interactions that will be required for users to understand the ‘reconfiguration’ process, as well as their conception of the positive and negative impl...

In this paper we examine a suite of systems for content-based indexing and browsing of digital video and we identify a superset of features and functions which are provided by these systems. From our classification of these we have identified that common to all is the fact of being predominantly technology-based, with little attention paid to actual user requirements. As part of our work we are...

Digital library interaction evaluation has, by nature, a user centered perspective, which directs the scientific research to the benefit of the user and narrows the research parameters. In this paper we propose a new framework for the evaluation of interaction and we introduce the concepts of usefulness, usability and performance as the main contributing factors for the creation of a rational a...

In the last decade, technological improvement on sensors increasingly motivates the use of sensor data in numerous application domains such as environmental, health, transportation, etc. Progressively, with the advances on user terminals, there is a strong trend towards interactive sensor data visualization. As viewing raw sensor data stored in multiple databases does not specially fulfill user...