Wherever the rapid evolution of interactive technologies disrupts standing situational norms, creates new, often unclear situational audiences, or crosses cultural boundaries, embarrassment is likely. This makes embarrassment a fundamental adoption and engagement hurdle, but also a creative design space for human-computer interaction. However, research on embarrassment in HCI has remained scatt...

Voice use is gaining prominence. However, people feel awkward using voice user interactions (UIs) around others. This is because voice UIs can be particularly embarrassing. Based on two years of research on voice UIs, I suggest some reasons why voice UIs can be particularly embarrassing. I also list research questions that can help guide development of voice UIs. I hope the workshop will provid...

Two field studies investigate the importance of social presence (real and imagined) and famiiiarity whti the purchase act in producing embarrassment in the context ot an embarrassing product purchase. The results indicate tbat awareness of a social presence during purchase selection and commitment, whether real or imagined, is a motivating factor in creating embarrassmenl for the consumer. Furt...

This is the first of a series articles dealing with casual use distributions made by physicists and engineers. very economical but sometimes leads to embarrassing conclusions that are difficult justify rigorous theories distributions.

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study was to use visits for contraceptive counselling as opportunities for examining women's actual life style habits with the main focus being placed on alcohol consumption but also to evaluate the women's opinions about discussing their alcohol and tobacco habits and their weight status. METHODS A total of 535/802 (67%) women completed a study-specific anonymous q...

We contribute a method for approximating users’ interruptibility costs to use for experience sampling and validate the method in an application that learns when to automatically turn off and on the phone volume to avoid embarrassing phone interruptions. We demonstrate that users have varying costs associated with interruptions which indicates the need for personalized cost approximations. We co...

We are interested in embarrassing interactions as part of wider research that explores digital games in our public spaces through a lens of play. Embarrassing interactions are an important feature of play and an inevitable facet of pervasive games. In this abstract we discuss several inspirational designs where a wide range of play includes opportunity to explore, manage and leverage embarrassm...

The distributed hash table, or DHT, is a distributed system that provides a traditional hash table’s simple put/get interface using a peer-to-peer overlay network. To echo the prevailing hype, DHTs deliver incremental scalability in the number of nodes, extremely high availability of data, low latency, and high throughput. Over the past 16 months, we have run a public DHT service called OpenDHT...

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