We present the Homeostasis Concept Inventory (HCI), a 20-item multiple-choice instrument that assesses how well undergraduates understand this critical physiological concept. We used an iterative process to develop a set of questions based on elements in the Homeostasis Concept Framework. This process involved faculty experts and undergraduate students from associate's colleges, primarily under...

Shape-changing User Interfaces attract growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. Modular robotics offer a great opportunity for their implementation. However, the current theoretical and technical advances of modular are fragmented little centered on user. To unify existing work center future research user, we perform systematic literature review enabling us to build unifying space design...

This paper attempts to answer a threefold question: from what kind of cues gender can reliably be assigned to French nouns? How the usage of these sublexical cues is acquired by children? What kind of computational models could account for the human data? We conducted an experiment with 73 1 and 2 grade children to assess their knowledge about gender information associated with suffixes using a...

We evaluated a web-based communication tool for nurse scheduling using two common usability evaluation methods, heuristic evaluation and end-user think aloud protocol. We found that heuristic evaluation performed by human-computer interaction (HCI) experts revealed more general interface design problems, while end-users' think-aloud protocols identified more obstacles to task performance. To pr...

In the context of development methods, early collaborations between specialists (SE, HCI, business, usability experts . . . ) allows having a broader view of the development possibilities, notably in terms of user-system interaction. Consequently, in-depth transformations of the processes and concepts can be considered with minimum financial or temporal impact. We discuss in this paper the oppo...

We have implemented a location-aware tour-guide based on RFID localization. The guide is specifically aimed at supporting blind users. We tested it in the context of EuroFlora 2006, one of the most important exhibitions of Europe. In this paper we briefly describe the development process and discuss some preliminary results from usability tests. The experimentation involved over 100 blind peopl...