Situated play in open-ended interactive art environments

In the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), we use a variety of Knowledge Elicitation (KE) techniques to capture user cognitive issues e.g. via interviews, paper prototyping, card sorting, focus group debates and more. MIKE (Mobile Interactive Knowledge Elicitation) is an ongoing research direction to enhance the KE capabilities of HCI practitioners via mobile and electronic methods. MIKE tools are a suite of Mobile HCI software and hardware configurations for a variety of mobile platforms. With MIKE's CONKER we describe a Collaborative Non-linear Knowledge Elicitation Repository for HCI practitioners. Its intention is to provide a scalable infrastructure for supporting the management and collaborative retrieval of mobile based KE datasets. Some of its functional design requirements include HCI practitioner profiles management, managing experimental progress from dispersed mobile HCI teams, timetabling expenditures for time critical empirical capture and participant management, and enabling concurrent HCI specialists to compare elicited mobile data. Further expansion of the CONKER system will include incorporation of distributed psychometric analysis methods. CONKER is realized as a sourceforge-alike Web-Portal using state-of-the-art web-framework technologies. We describe several approaches to the capturing and management of HCI data and how CONKER makes this available to the HCI community.

This conference paper addresses gaps in scholarship and pedagogy surrounding the phenomenon of “dark patterns” in digital marketing and interface design by showcasing three curriculum-building projects. Dark patterns refer to a set of design strategies that co-opt the human-centred values advocated for in the fields of user experience (UX) design and human-computer interaction (HCI) to manipulate users into taking actions contrary to their personal interests. Recent dark patterns research has clustered within the fields of HCI, media studies, and game studies, with a focus on e-commerce and online gambling platforms. The presented projects put this established research into conversation with scholarship from business and marketing, science and technology studies, cognitive neuroscience, and disability studies to both create a more holistic definition of dark patterns and implement this expanded definition into university course curricula. These include $2 , focused on contextualizing dark patterns within historical market segmentation and merchandising strategies; $2 , on broadening the definition of dark patterns to include non-screen interfaces; and $2 , on analyzing how dark patterns have a disproportionate effect on individuals with certain cognitive disabilities. Collectively, these projects aimed to grant a greater historicity and social context to the phenomenon of dark patterns and introduce them as a utilizable pedagogical concept within the disciplines of communications, technology, and design. The findings of these projects are presented through the sharing of pedagogical materials, informal and formal feedback, and planned curriculum revisions.

Many software development companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, still need to be more aware of and understand Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) values, methods, techniques, and concepts. Recent studies have shown that companies are demanding internal self-assessment of HCI practices within the software development industry. However, only a few models are available for assessing HCI practices, and they lack sufficient validation to be widely applicable. The models are mainly based on staged assessments by experts, but continuous representation models are more suitable for self-assessment. To bridge these gaps, we have developed a new process model, HCI Reflect—a self-assessment method, and structurally assessed it as a model encompassing four dimensions for self-assessing HCI practices in software development companies: human-centeredness, process and infrastructure, usability performance, and usability impact. In this article, we present the model’s theoretical foundation and the results from an international assessment study of the first version of the model, where 118 software development professionals evaluated the model’s four dimensions. The results demonstrated the significance of these dimensions, and based on this, we present a revised version. The development and assessment are the first steps towards the validation of the model, and we plan to test the underlying questionnaire for usability next. The model, when validated, would be helpful for self-assessing HCI practices in software development companies to foster knowledge and understanding of HCI practices in development teams. ACM CCS: Human-centered computing— > Human computer interaction (HCI)— > HCI design and evaluation methods.

This article discusses interactive art as the core of new media technology and synesthesia technology as its key feature. From the development source, it analyzes virtual reality works and the interactive characteristics of virtual reality formed by the intersection of media, art, and technology. By discussing related issues and from the perspective of interactive art application, this study proposes a method to improve the interactive experience of virtual reality works. When somatosensory natural interactions surpass keyboards to make the mouth-screen interaction unprecedentedly convenient, virtual reality makes people experience the world in a novel way bringing more possibilities and demanding more complicated requirements from art creation.<BR>Considering the development of interactive art over the years, we see interactive art works becoming increasingly homogeneous. Works lack uniqueness and emotion, and the audience’s demands have grown higher in physiology and mentality. Many creators lack a systematic understanding of the application, theoretical support for interactive art creation. Thus, when interactive art works are created, no clear judgment standards are seen, and there is no creative basis for some works, which leads to insufficient spiritual connotation and emotional resonance. What is seen are “flashy” results over-proclaiming the importance of high technology using sound, light, electricity, and exaggerated visual design. Therefore, there is a need to establish an emotional connection between the work and the audience by generating an emotional resonance. This article examines the “synesthesia” method, originally from the field of literature and psychology, in interactive art and finds that this method is actually used in the creation of interactive art works, but there is a lack of overall induction and systematic research on it.

User experience (UX) research has received increasing importance in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The CHI community has recently recognized a need for a complementary conceptual-theoretical discussion about UX (Obrist et al., 2011). This paper introduces conceptual development work of the notion of UX that aims at understanding the holistic nature of the phenomenon by connecting the temporal and long-term UX to each other. Activity theory by Leontjev, combined with Dewey's concept of an aesthetic experience, provided the theoretical framework for defining the concept of expanded UX (eUX). The concept of eUX is an analytical tool for design of interactive high-tech products. The concept of eUX can be utilized to reach a deeper understanding of UX in the HCI research and practice. This article concentrates on the theoretical exploration of the concept of user experience, excluding empirical studies of phenomenon.

With the escalating role of computers in educational system, human computer interaction, is becoming gradually more important part of it. The general believe is that with the progress in computing speed, communication technologies, and display techniques the existing HCI techniques may become a constraint in the effectual utilization of the existing information flow. The development of user interfaces influences the changes in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Human hand gestures have been a mode of non verbal interaction widely used. The vocabulary of hand gesture communication has many variations. It ranges from simple action of using our finger to point at and using hands to move objects around for more complex expressions for the feelings and communicating with others. Also the hand gestures play a prominent role in teaching considering the explanations and exemplifications being highly dependent on hand gestures. Naturalistic and intuitiveness of the hand gesture has been an immense motivating aspect for the researchers in the field of Human Computer Interaction to put their efforts to research and develop the more promising means of interaction involving human and computers. The pursuance for the Human Computer Interaction research is moved by the central dogma of removing the complex and cumbersome interaction devices and replacing them with more obvious and expressive means of interaction which easily comes to the users with least cognitive burden like hand gestures. This paper designs a simple, natural system for gestural interaction between the user and computer for providing a dynamic user interface. The gesture recognition system uses image processing techniques for detection, segmentation, tracking and recognition of hand gestures for converting it to a meaningful command. This hand gesture recognition system has been proposed, designed and developed with the intensions to make it a substitute for mouse while making dynamic user interface between human and machine. Hence instead of making effort to develop a new vocabulary of hand gesture we have matched control instruction set of mouse to subset of most discriminating hand gestures, so that we get a robust interface. The interface being proposed here can be substantially applied towards different applications like image browser, games etc.

The focus of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is to generate an understanding of how people can best interact with computers, and then to design and build technologies and tools that facilitate that interaction. As a field, HCI draws on many disciplines and perspectives. The primary contributors have historically been psychology, computer science and human factors -- more recent entries include (among others) anthropology, communication, education, graphic and industrial design, linguistics, sociology, and systems science. The work being done in the HCI field is shifting rapidly in response to the influx of these new perspectives. A quick survey of the literature from the past ten years reveals some further trends, and even some unexpected paradoxes 1 . Much of the work reported focuses either on theory [8], or on practice [3], although in many cases, work moves from theory to implementation and evaluation [4]. Papers are usually either technology-based [7] or user-based [11], but there is also work that approaches HCI problems from both of these ends of the interaction spectrum [12].

The aim of this programme of research was to build upon prior work regarding the heuristic evaluation of mobile applications in two important areas. A mixed methods approach was taken to address the research questions using questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, document analysis and statistical analyses. The first contribution of this programme of research was to adapt traditional usability heuristics, so they could be used to more effectively evaluate the usability of mobile applications. The resulting set of mobile application usability heuristics uncovered the highest number of usability issues in absolute terms, as well as the most critical issues within a well-known travel mobile application when compared to two other sets of usability heuristics. In addition, the set of mobile application usability heuristics defined within this programme of research was ranked as the most useful set by participants knowledgeable in the field of human-computer interaction when compared to two other sets of usability heuristics. The second contribution of this programme of research was to extend the set of mobile application heuristics allowing human-computer interaction researchers and practitioners to more effectively consider the potential impact of context of use on the usability of mobile applications. This addressed a gap in the literature as few effective methods existed for this purpose. The protocol was deemed easy to use, easy to understand and easy to learn by participants knowledgeable in the field of human-computer interaction. The beneficiaries of this programme of research are human-computer interaction researchers and practitioners, as well as mobile application users.

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The last decade has witnessed the development of academic research and professional work in the field of Human-computer interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX) design in Indonesia. The pervasive adoption of mobile technology, the Internet and social technologies in the Indonesian society has highlighted the personal interaction and usability problems in the everyday life of Indonesians. This work-in-progress is intended to serve as a reference for the growing HCI and UX community in Indonesia. This paper represents a first attempt at describing the history of HCI and UX in Indonesia, the research and practice that contribute to its development in the present state, and a reflection of its future. A reflective discussion then concludes what defines the HCI and UX community in Indonesia, including what lies ahead in its future.

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Mobile HCI2010, the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, and to Lisboa, Portugal. For the first time MobileHCI takes place in Portugal and is organised by the University of Lisboa, with the collaboration of the New University of Lisboa and the research centres LaSIGE and CITI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. Starting in 1998 in Glasgow, MobileHCI is now on its 12th edition and it is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for mobile and wearable computing devices and services. MobileHCI 2010 call for papers attracted many researchers and practitioners in the area receiving a total of 111 full papers and 114 short papers. Through a very thorough review process, we were able to accept 26 full papers and 20 short papers in a very competitive process. The acceptance rate for full papers was 23.4% and for short papers was 17.5%. In addition to the full and short papers, MobileHCI 2010 includes other submission categories that promote different types of interactions among the participants (workshops, panels, industrial case studies, a design competition, future innovations, posters, demos and experiences, and a doctoral consortium). This year, the programme includes three notable invited speakers, Patrick Baudish from the Hasso Plattner Institute, Josh Ulm from Vodafone UK, and Scott Jenson from Google USA, with mixed industry and academic backgrounds sharing their innovative work and experiences with the conference participants. The Programme Committee was fundamental in reaching the final high quality programme. As a new approach, the rigorous review process included Associate Chairs and Programme Committee members. Each paper was reviewed by at least three PC members (most of the papers by four or five) and was assigned to an Associate Chair that moderated online discussions to reach a final set of reviews for each paper. The Programme Chair and the Associate Chairs met in Lisboa in March 2010 to make the final decisions for the conference. In total, more than 1100 reviews were generated over the several categories of the programme.

To transform pedagogically sound classroom tasks into effective CALL-ware, it is advantageous to have an approach that takes into account the general principles applicable to all human computer interaction (HCI). This paper outlines an attempt at such an approach. Teacher-designed, pedagogically sound software often fails in terms of usability, while highly usable, professionally made software is often based on ideas that are not in accord with those of a particular curriculum or teacher. The approach outlined below may assist in the process of transforming pedagogic materials and practices already successfully used in the classroom into easily usable software.

Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots through Explanations

This theoretical essay builds on existing literature to draw out the consequences of dehumanizing and disseminating autism discourses within the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Focusing mainly on narratives in HCI that frame autistic people as or like machines, we explore how dominant constructions of autism in HCI work to normalize the field’s complicity in violent autism intervention paradigms, despite HCI researchers’ well-meaning intentions. We work towards developing crip-cyborgs as an alternative framework for understanding autistic people (as opposed to computers or robots) and suggest crip technoscience as a framework for research based on this alternative understanding. In doing so, we hope to enroll misguided but well-intentioned researchers in dismantling anti-autistic ableism, both in and beyond HCI.

Introduction/purpose: The research aimed to analyze the key aspects of human-computer interaction, studying the evolution of this field from its beginnings to contemporary trends. Focusing on different aspects of this interaction, it studied how methods, technologies and principles have evolved over time and shaped our experiences in the digital environment. Methods: The research methodology was based on the analysis of relevant literature and research papers devoted to human-computer interaction. Systematic review and evaluation of sources identified the key information on the evolution of user interaction with computers. Through evaluation of available studies, changes in interface design methods, interaction technologies and understanding of user needs over time were identified. Results: Based on data synthesis, the key aspects of human-computer interaction were identified. An analysis of the literature revealed changes in interface design methods, interaction technologies, and understanding of user needs over time. Specific results included information on the evolution of interaction aspects, including improvements in efficiency, intuitiveness and personalization of experiences. Conclusion: The key conclusion of the research is that innovations and evolution of technology have significantly influenced the way users interact with computer systems. Improvements in interface design, recognition technologies, and personalization of experiences are key factors in creating better user experiences and optimizing human-computer interaction. The research points to the continuous development and changes in the field of human-computer interaction, emphasizing the need for further research and innovation in this area.