combinFormation enables people to search, browse, collect, and compose information on the Web, supporting information exploration and discovery. Through mixedinitiatives, a visual representation of news feeds, searches, and document crawls is assembled. A generative agent collects information, forms visual surrogates and continuously develops a composition that represents them as a connected co...

Sixty-five undergraduates, classified into Field-Dependent (FD), Field-Mixed (FM), and Field-Independent (FI) learners, were randomly assigned to two groups, Text-Only (T-O) and Text-and-Visual (T-V). The T-O group received a textual description of a computer model, whereas the T-V group received the same description but in both textual and visual format. Participants were asked to run the mode...

In a mixed-reality (MR) environment, a touchable object can be made to change its appearance when a computer-generated image (MR visual stimulation) is superimposed onto it. In this research, we conduct experiments to study the effects of MR visual and audio stimuli on the tactual impression of the “roughness” of an object. We show that MR visual stimulation alters a subject’s tactual impressio...

While commercially available mixed-reality (MR) head-mounted devices are also increasingly used in education the impact of MR learning environments is mostly being evaluated with respect to outcomes and gains alongside a number affective variables. Here we aim at deeper understanding influence on experimental problem-solving processes by means eye-tracking analyses as an addition self-reported ...

Researchers in mixed-initiative problem-solving have generally viewed interaction between the user and the system as a form of dialog, which provides an e ective unifying framework for multimodal systems. For mixed-initiative interaction through a visual medium, however, an approach that exploits our visual perceptual abilities and the bene ts of direct manipulation mechanisms is equally compel...