This paper proposes a method for interactive recognition of household objects by a robot using proprioceptive feedback. In our experiments, the robot observed the changes in its proprioceptive stream while performing five exploratory behaviors (lift, shake, drop, crush, and push) on 50 common household objects (e.g., bottles, cans, balls, toys, etc.). Specifically, the robot used its own joint ...

We present Ubinion, a service that utilizes large public interactive displays to enable young people to give personalized feedback on municipal issues to local youth workers. It also facilitates discussion and sharing the feedback online using modern social networking services. We present the motivation and rationale behind Ubinion and analyze the results from three large-scale user trials cond...

The poor design of interactive systems has been attributed to insufficient communication between developers and end users. Critical forms of communications include soliciting requirements and feedback on prototype systems. Our research develops a software lifecycle emphasizing feedback from end users and communication among end users, developers, and other stakeholders in a software development...

Interactive technology can support exertion activities, with many examples focusing on improving athletic performance. We see an opportunity for technology to also support extreme sports such as skateboarding, which often focus primarily on the experience of doing tricks rather than on athletic performance. However, there is little knowledge on how to design for such experiences. In response, w...

This paper makes two contributions at two different levels: one is about a design principle of HCI, namely the provision of personalized and dynamic feedback in interactive applications; the second contribution is a demonstration of the need for visual and dynamic representations to explain the design of interactive interfaces. At the first level, in the context of patients managing their healt...

This paper explores an intensity-based approach to sound feedback in systems for embodied learning. We describe a theoretical framework, design guidelines, and the implementation of and results from an informant workshop. The specific context of embodied activity is considered in light of the challenges of designing meaningful sound feedback, and a design approach is shown to be a generative wa...

Models of visual word recognition that have adopted an interactive activation framework (e.g., Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Grainger & Jacobs, 1996) assume that activation can spread from semantic to orthographic representations via a feedback mechanism during visual word recognition. The present study used a mediated priming paradigm to test whether such feedback exists and, if s...

This paper makes two contributions at two different levels: one is about a design principle of HCI, namely the provision of personalized and dynamic feedback in interactive applications; the second contribution is a demonstration of the need for visual and dynamic representations to explain the design of interactive interfaces. At the first level, in the context of patients managing their healt...

In this paper, we give an overview of the PicToSeek system for exploring visual information on the World Wide Web. PicToSeek automatically collects, indexes and catalogs visual information entirely on the basis of the pictorial content. PicToSeek allows for content-based image retrieval conducted in an interactive, iterative manner guided by the user by relevance feedback. Relevance feedback ca...