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During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were employed to contain its spread. This paper describes the deployment and testing of a passive Wi-Fi scanning system to help people keep track of crowded spaces, hence comply with social ...

In March 2020, the government of India ordered a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This led to the shutdown of educational institutes throughout the country, restricting all activities to online mediums. The shift has affected ...

This research investigates Italian citizens’ attitudes towards the contact tracing app Immuni, promoted by the Italian government to track the spread of Covid19 and prevent possible future out-breaks. More specifically, this paper tries to uncover ...

Social isolation is one of the negative consequences of a pandemic like COVID-19. Social isolation and loneliness are not only experienced by older adults, but also by younger people who live alone and cannot communicate with others or get ...

Increasing use of online conferencing systems, particularly over the past year, has highlighted problems in these systems, especially their poor support for small group interactions within larger meetings. These include clumsy small group ...

Evaluation of a novel user-performance model’s fitness requires comparison with baseline models, yet it is often time consuming and involves much effort by researchers to collect data from many participants. Crowdsourcing has recently been used ...

In this exploratory study we evaluated the engagement, performance and preferences of older adults who interacted with different citizen science tasks. Out of 40 projects recently active on the Zooniverse platform we selected top ones to be ...

A significant challenge for creating efficient and fair crowdsourcing platforms is in rapid assessment of the quality of crowdwork. If a crowdworker lacks the skill, motivation, or understanding to provide adequate quality task completion, this ...

The driving experience has become one of the central decision factors when buying a car. In current manually driven cars, this experience is to a large extent influenced by driver-based infotainment functionalities. With the advent of rear-seat ...

We describe applications that implement interactions between the driver and their smart vehicle in a continuous interaction space characterized by the physical distance to the vehicle and by the smart devices that implement those interactions. ...

We introduce smart vehicle proxemics, a conceptual framework for interactive vehicular applications that operationalizes proxemics to outside-the-vehicle interactions. We identify four zones around the vehicle affording different kinds of ...

Patients on haemodialysis face complex care pathways, a high treatment burden and lower quality-of-life. Working with multidisciplinary domain experts, we have conducted several iterative development cycles to design, develop and evaluate a portal ...

Digital tools are an essential part of the work environment of many civil servants working at public authorities. They should therefore follow the prevalent work environment legislation. This paper describes a method to conduct digital work ...

Studies indicate that the way structured participatory design activities are facilitated significantly effects participation, power relations, and generated output. Although facilitation is always adapted to the conditions of each design project, ...

Google Design Sprint (GDS) is becoming a valued tool for interaction design practitioners today. Although GDS has some similarities to User-Centred Design (UCD), it does not study user needs before generating solutions. On the other hand, UCD ...

The scope of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is expanding with regard to the studied systems and stakeholders, and its impact areas. Service design has recently gained tractions in HCI as an approach to deal with these expansions. ...

It has long been known that our sense of smell is a powerful one that affects emotions and behaviors. Recently, interest in the sense of smell has been growing exponentially in HCI. However, the potential of smell to inspire design is still ...

Sequential art in the form of comics is a powerful and effective vehicle for graphic storytelling and communication, rendering it a suitable means for design fiction. Few, dispersed examples introduce comic-based design fictions in HCI research, ...

Architecture has been taking new turns with rapidly developing digital design and fabrication technologies. Consequently, establishing a link between physical and virtual design methods remains an open area for investigation. This paper explores ...

Personas is a suggested method to extend IT professionals' understanding of users and users’ needs. A common advantage expressed is that personas extend the IT professionals’ empathy for the users, but a disadvantage is that personas are typically ...

We envision a unique social interaction system, ‘users-as-beacons’ built upon Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon technology, that could provide potential privacy benefits. It leverages BLE to employ the user devices to act as mobile beacons. Its ...

In this paper, we present the design and the evaluation of an authoring tool for End-User Development, which supports the definition of Trigger-Actions rules that combines events and states in the triggers. The possibility of using either states ...

This paper contributes to HCI with a foundation for exploring ways in which an Internet of Things (IoT) solution can support the maintenance of public automated defibrillators (AEDs) sustainably. AED is a critical lifesaving technology installed ...