In an interaction design studio students develop interactive products with emphasis on collaboration, creativity and method use. Typically the goals of interaction design studios are to let students acquire the practical skills to apply theories and methods from relevant courses in the context of a real-world problem, and to develop their collaborative and organizational abilities that will be ...

Archaeology can provide two bodies of information relevant to the understanding of the evolution of human cognition--the timing of developments, and the evolutionary context of these developments. The challenge is methodological. Archaeology must document attributes that have direct implications for underlying cognitive mechanisms. One example of such a cognitive archaeology is found in spatial...

We report on an experiment that investigated how people naturally communicate with computational devices using speech and gaze. Our approach follows from the idea that human-human conversation involves the establishment of common ground, the use of gaze direction to indicate attention and turn-taking, and awareness of other’s knowledge and abilities. Our goal is to determine whether it is easie...