- Conference Chairs:
- Tom Ormerod,
- Corina Sas
As the British HCI conference has reached its 21st year, it has earned its status as being a conference with a mind of its own --- a bit provocative and looking to the future. This is what we have tried to reflect in the Volume 2 proceedings. Short papers are an ideal forum for work in progress and late breaking results. This year we have also included a number of papers that are more thought-provoking, both for the future of HCI and our own practices. As such, this Volume captures exactly what "not as we know it" represents: papers that are all trying to say something new and different, whether at a theoretical level or in terms of research carried out in non-traditional areas or using novel methodologies. The present papers also complement very effectively the full papers presented in Volume 1, and are categorised under the same themes for presentation at the conference: Creative and Aesthetic Experiences, Everyday Interaction, Communicating and Sharing Experiences, Mobile and Remote Interaction, Tracking Usability Issues, From Theory to Technique, HCI: Surveying the Domain, and Extending HCI.
Visualising Bluetooth interactions: combining the Arc diagram and DocuBurst techniques
Within the Bluetooth mobile space, overwhelmingly large sets of interaction and encounter data can very quickly be accumulated. This presents a challenge to gaining an understanding and overview of the dataset as a whole. In order to overcome this ...
Breaking the campus bubble: informed, engaged, connected
This paper introduces UniVote, a system supporting mobile phone-based interaction with public displays. The case study carried out at Lancaster University indicates that the campus "bubble" in which students live can lead to feelings of isolation within ...
Teaching severely autistic children to recognise emotions: finding a methodology
This paper presents part of our wider research project concerning the design, development and evaluation of computer systems for children with autism. Research currently being carried out concerns how children with autism recognise human facial ...
MARPLE investigates: an 'adversarial' approach to evaluating user experience
User experience of interactive systems has always been difficult to assess due to its subjective nature. In this paper we present a new approach to the evaluation of pleasure as an aspect of user experience. This multi-lateral approach, entitled MARPLE, ...
Designing for photolurking
This paper describes our early work on design and development to support photolurking. Photolurking is browsing and looking at people's photographs without participating in discussion or addressing the owner of the photographs or photologs, whilst still ...
Mapping the demographics of virtual humans
This paper presents a census of 147 virtual agents, by examining and reporting on their physical and demographical characteristics. The study shows that the vast majority of agents developed are from a white ethnic background. Overall, female agents ...
Design in evaluation: reflections on designing for children's technology
This paper reflects on the design value that emerges from evaluation methods used in the field of child computer interaction.
The work is based around an evaluation study of a tangible game prototype for children. The prototype and the evaluation ...
Recommendations
Affordances in HCI: toward a mediated action perspective
CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsInterpretations of the concept of "affordances" in HCI are becoming increasingly diverse, extending well beyond the original Gibsonian meaning. We discuss some of the key analyses of affordances in HCI research and make three related claims. First, we ...
Reflective HCI: articulating an agenda for critical practice
CHI EA '06: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsReflective HCI is a style of HCI research that integrates technical practice with ongoing critical reflection. In the last thirty years, HCI researchers and practitioners have expanded their interests from aspects of cognitive ergonomics concerned with ...
Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| British HCI '15 | 62 | 28 | 45% |
| Overall | 62 | 28 | 45% |