The paper discusses the idea of using HCI-task models to support smart environments. It introduces a collaborative task modeling language CTML that allows the specification of collaboration and comprehensive dependencies in an OCL-like style. Additionally some ideas are presented that allow informing users and usability experts about the state of actors within smart environments. The paper prov...

Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary association of sound and meaning. Experiment 1 demonstrates that sound symbolic associations facilitate the online processing of male and female voices when the target words contain the vowels /A/ and /i/ for male and female voices, respectively, when listeners are engaged in a speeded gender identification task. Experiment 2 reveals that when listeners are ...

We are investigating gender HCI issues in problemsolving software, using quantitative and qualitative empirical methods. Our research approach uses formative work to understand the existence and attributes of gender-relevant design features, based on which we then design and implement new features in our research prototype. Finally, we perform summative empirical work to evaluate effectiveness.

This is the first of two books concerned with engineering design principles for Human-Computer Interaction-Engineering Design Principles (HCI-EDPs). The book presents background companion volume. divided into three parts and comprises—"HCI EDPs," "HCI Knowledge "HCI-EDPs—A Way Forward HCI Knowledge." volume reports in full acquisition initial HCI-EDPs domains domestic energy planning control bu...

It’s believed that free and open source software (F/OSS) developers are inclined to build feature-centric projects rather than following a user-centric design, ignoring the necessity of usability inside the resulting product. While there are many reasons behind this, main cause can be attributed to lack of awareness of usability from developers’ point of view and little interaction of project s...

Great things can be achieved even with very low bandwidth. Stephen Hawking has been able to break new ground in theoretical physics just by twitching his hand and cheek. Jean-Dominique Bauby was able to write a bestselling memoir by blinking one eyelid. By reading and decoding “brain-waves”, the field of brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is poised to open up the possibility of such expression, e...

A grand goal of future medicine is in modelling the complexity of patients to tailor medical decisions, health practices and therapies to the individual patient. This trend towards personalized medicine produces unprecedented amounts of data, and even though the fact that human experts are excellent at pattern recognition in dimensions of ≤ 3, the problem is that most biomedical data is in dime...

0953-5438/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2009.09.001 Abbreviations: HCI, human–computer interaction munication technology; WDE, work-domain experts; * Corresponding author. Address: SINTEF ICT, P.O. B Norway. Tel.: +47 22067515; fax: +47 22067350. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Følstad), ben [email protected] (D.I.K. Sjøberg). It is a challenge for usability ex...