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- research-articleOctober 2023
Supporting from the Background: How a Mobile Application for Parent Skills Development Encourages Authoritative Parenting
CSCW '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingPages 105–111https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606969In this paper, we describe initial findings of a usability evaluation of a mobile parenting app for families with adolescents. We designed and built a mobile app to support healthy family dynamics through behavioral parent management and skills ...
- research-articleMay 2017
Evaluation of Prototypes and the Problem of Possible Futures
CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2064–2077https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025658There is a blind spot in HCI's evaluation methodology: we rarely consider the implications of the fact that a prototype can never be fully evaluated in a study. A prototype under study exists firmly in the present world, in the circumstances created in ...
- articleJanuary 2016
Listening to the consumer's voice in website analytics
International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), Volume 23, Issue 1Pages 116–130https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2016.078025Usability studies coupled with the 'think aloud' protocol allow firms and researchers to gain insights into people's web browsing experience. The purpose of this exploratory study is to gain additional insights into the customer perceptions of the ...
- ArticleJanuary 2015
An Investigation of the Use of Maps in Mobile Learning Contexts: Possibilities and Challenges
PLATCON '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Platform Technology and ServicePages 35–36https://doi.org/10.1109/PlatCon.2015.29As the popularity of mobile devices increases, mobile technology is a suitable tool to use for pedagogical purposes. Some practice-based disciplines such as Urban Planning Design or Architecture have issues about how to link theories into practice (for, ...
- ArticleDecember 2014
Netra3D: Android Application with Affordances of Tablet Computers
- Sameer Sahasrabudhe,
- Nitin Ayer,
- Pooja Bhawar,
- Ruchi Chaurasia,
- Arpana Swarnkar,
- Himalini Sharma,
- Medha Srivastava,
- Rakshita Vijay,
- Ravikumar Jogu,
- Sumanth Kumar Mora
T4E '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Technology for EducationPages 182–188https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2014.41Rise in usage of handheld computers, has seen adaptation of existing content to make it usable on tablet computers. However, there is a lack of consideration about the tablet affordances in creating new content. We present a study, of one such ...
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- research-articleOctober 2014
Being there for real: presence in real and virtual environments and its relation to usability
NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, FoundationalPages 117–126https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2639224Presence, the participants' feeling of "being there" in an environment, is important for usability studies, as this can affect their outcomes. We aim at extending the concept of presence from virtual to real environments in the context of usability ...
- research-articleJune 2013
Empirical Research through Ubiquitous Data Collection
Ubiquitous computing technologies enable new in situ data-collection opportunities that can reveal insights into mobile users' behaviors and preferences.
- ArticleMarch 2013
Crowdsourcing GUI Tests
ICST '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and ValidationPages 332–341https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2013.44Graphical user interfaces are difficult to test: automated tests are hard to create and maintain, while manual tests are time-consuming, expensive and hard to integrate in a continuous testing process. In this paper, we show that it is possible to crowd ...
- research-articleJanuary 2013
A tale of two studies
AUIC '13: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian User Interface Conference - Volume 139Pages 81–89Running user evaluation studies is a useful way of getting feedback on partially or fully implemented software systems. Unlike hypothesis-based testing (where specific design decisions can be tested or comparisons made between design choices) the aim is ...
- research-articleJune 2012
A survey for measuring internet anxiety types
CompSysTech '12: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Systems and TechnologiesPages 337–344https://doi.org/10.1145/2383276.2383325In this paper, we describe a paper-based survey for measuring seven Internet anxiety types. A paper-based survey was distributed among seventy university participants and forty-nine responded with a valid response. The evaluation and analysis of seven ...
- ArticleJune 2011
Hardware design in smart home applications: rapid prototyping and embedded systems
Research advances in smart home technologies are highly diverse and innovative[1,2,3]. Some of these novel ideas involve in creating new hardware to perform distinct functionality. In this paper, we present two effective methods for transforming these ...
- research-articleAugust 2010
Comparing Computer Versus Human Data Collection Methods for Public Usability Evaluations of a Tactile-Audio Display
We present a public usability study that provides preliminary results on the effectiveness of a universally designed system that conveys music and other sounds into tactile sensations. The system was displayed at a public science museum as part of a ...
- research-articleJune 2010
Developing usability studies via formal models of UIs
EICS '10: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systemsPages 175–180https://doi.org/10.1145/1822018.1822044Developing usability studies to evaluate software is a task requiring a wide variety of skills. For software developers who are not used to taking a user-centred approach to development it is often easier and more convenient to dismiss the use of user ...
- research-articleOctober 2009
The A.R.T. of content management training
SIGUCCS '09: Proceedings of the 37th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference: communication and collaborationPages 7–10https://doi.org/10.1145/1629501.1629504Keeping your institution's website accurate, relevant and timely (A.R.T) can be a challenge when you have multiple content management specialists/web publishers with varying skills and knowledge contributing to your website.
After Widener University ...
- ArticleApril 2007
Decision-making strategies in design meetings
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 1645–1648https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240873This project aims to further our understanding of the practice of user-centered design (UCD) by observing the argumentation strategies used by designers in face-to-face meetings in the critical periods between usability research and prototype iteration. ...
- ArticleNovember 2006
Handheld AR for collaborative edutainment
ICAT'06: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-ExistencePages 85–96https://doi.org/10.1007/11941354_10Handheld Augmented Reality (AR) is expected to provide ergonomic, intuitive user interfaces for untrained users. Yet no comparative study has evaluated these assumptions against more traditional user interfaces for an education task. In this paper we ...
- ArticleMay 2006
Browsing through 3D representations of unstructured picture collections: an empirical study
AVI '06: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfacesPages 445–448https://doi.org/10.1145/1133265.1133355The paper presents a 3D interactive representation of fairly large picture collections which facilitates browsing through unstructured sets of icons or pictures. Implementation of this representation implies choosing between two visualization strategies:...
- research-articleMay 2006
When 100% really isn't 100%: improving the accuracy of small-sample estimates of completion rates
Small sample sizes are a fact of life for most usability practitioners. This can lead to serious measurement problems, especially when making binary measurements such as successful task completion rates (p). The computation of confidence intervals helps ...
- ArticleApril 2002
The role of transparency in recommender systems
CHI EA '02: CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 830–831https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506619Recommender Systems act as a personalized decision guides, aiding users in decisions on matters related to personal taste. Most previous research on Recommender Systems has focused on the statistical accuracy of the algorithms driving the systems, with ...
- ArticleOctober 2001
The changing face of technical communication: new directions for the field in a new millennium
SIGDOC '01: Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentationPages 248–260https://doi.org/10.1145/501516.501573In this panel session, the authors identify four different factors shaping the future of technical communication: user-centered design, corporate universities, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and knowledge management. The authors each address how ...