E-participation applications enable online participation of citizens and interested stakeholder groups in political debates and strategic decisionmaking. The tools, channels and devices through which online participation takes place require proper design to support citizens, politicians and other actors. To incorporate the needs of these actors into the functionalities of an eParticipation plat...

For centuries people have washed away their guilt by washing their hands. Do people need to wash their own hands, or is it enough to watch other people wash their hands? To induce guilt, we had participants write about a past wrong they had committed. Next, they washed their hands, watched a washing-hands video, or watched a typing-hands video. After the study was over, participants could help ...

Because items near our hands are often more important than items far from our hands, the brain processes visual items near our hands differently than items far from our hands. Multiple experiments have attributed this processing difference to spatial attention, but the exact mechanism behind how spatial attention near our hands changes is still under investigation. The current experiments sough...

Prior research indicated that information processing is influenced by the proximity of the hands to information: visuospatial processing is fostered near the hands, whereas textual processing might not be affected or even inhibited near the hands. This study investigated how the proximity of the hands to digital information in pop-ups influences learning outcomes on multi-touch devices. Dependi...

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We propose a new paradigm for public participation in urban planning, a field which presents significant challenges for public understanding and participation. Our approach is based on leveraging the rich diversity of meaning associated with cultural gestures, traditions, folklore, and rituals, and using them in augmented reality systems, in order for citizens’ to explore, understand, and commu...

This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of the nature and role of gestural action in the performance of a remote collaborative physical task. The analysis focuses on the use of a low-tech prototype gesturing system, which projects unmediated gestures to create a mixed reality ecology that promotes awareness in cooperative activity. CSCW researchers have drawn attention to the core problem ...

Simulated through a 3D grid storing the density of clay in each cell (0 for an empty cell, and 1 for a full cell). The surface is defined as the iso-surface at 0.5 of clay density. Clay behavior is captured by a layered model ensuring 3 properties: Large scale deformations (fig.1) Mass conservation by pouring the excess of matter in neighbouring cells (fig.2) Surface tension for preventing the ...

A 42-year-old woman had pain in her hands and discoloration on the tips of her fingers and toes when exposed to cold (Figure 1). She had chronic systemic lupus erythematosus that was diagnosed seven years earlier. Her urinalysis findings were abnormal, including the presence of proteinuria and hematuria. Her creatinine level was normal, and her antinuclear antibody titer was 1:2,560. Renal biop...