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HCI has some rich and suggestive ideas, like affordance and direct manipulation. Abstract (not just geometrical) symmetry is a powerful explanation of why these concepts work, and it can be generalised to guide new design for more effective user ...

Best practice in interface design suggests that hand-drawn sketches are preferable at the early stages of the design process. This paper describes the FreeForm software which supports informal sketched interface design by acting as a Visual Basic Add-...

We survey tools for colour selection, reviewing their shortcomings and strengths, and suggest a way of integrating their best features into a single tool.

Gesture based interfaces promise to increase the efficiency of user input, particularly in mobile computing where standard input devices such as the mouse and keyboard are impractical. This paper describes an investigation into the low-level physical ...

Although metaphor is a commonly used device in the design of user-interfaces, it is not rigorously understood, and most guidance stops at the recommendation of its use. In this paper we seek to provide a systematic taxonomy of user-interface metaphors, ...

This paper reports on a study to examine the effect of display type (desktop display verses projected display) on inter-object distance estimation in real and virtual environment (VE). Non-stereo images of real and virtual environments were used as ...

The issue of trust in a virtual community has grown in importance as the Internet has penetrated our daily lives. We believe that "co-creative communication", or creating and sharing a context through physical activities, can support trust building. ...

At the early stages of user interface design, it is important to be able to describe the contents and architecture of the interface without prematurely deciding its surface 'look and feel' and behaviour. In this paper, the problems of undertaking early ...

Existing cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) development tools do not support migrate-able GUIs as they do not consider any runtime concern, such as running state transformations. To address this problem, we introduce Scalable Graphical User ...

This paper presents a simple lightweight Case tool to support manipulation of UML sequence diagrams. The tool is intended to have high usability to facilitate communication and discussion in the early part of the design process, where sequence diagrams ...

Few software products have been developed specifically for the severely/profoundly intellectually handicapped users. This paper examines the special hardware needs of this target group, explores interface design strategies that would increase the ...

Some simple approaches for reducing complexity within a prototype email system for older users are described. It is argued that these approaches, while successful, depend on limiting the richness of the interface and do not scale up to handling feature ...

This paper presents results from a set of design sessions held in a broadcasting company. The aim of research was to find a user centered design method which includes the future users into the product development in the early stages of new product ...

This paper reports on the development of a prototype interface for a community discussion forum. The intention of the interface is to not only provide a means of access to a community forum, but also to portray information about that forum to the ...

Many applications now require access from diverse human-computer interaction devices, such as desktop computers, web browsers, PDAs, mobile phones, pagers and so on. We describe our experiences developing a multi-device travel planning application built ...

Ever improving speech technology continues to revolutionise the way we interact with computers. This paper describes a speech-driven graphics system that allows the user to construct and manipulate 3-dimensional (3D) graphical images using only their ...

In this paper we describe work in progress; using transcripts of audio files, generated with speech recognition software, to navigate and manipulate audio information. Three applications are being developed. The first is to find and extract speech ...

Advances in both hardware and software have significantly increased the number and types of tools available to the artists who create digital visual effects for film. In the same way musicians in the 1980's began to build and use electronic instruments ...