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Of Dolls and Men: Anticipating Sexual Intimacy with Robots
Sex and intimate technologies are important in people’s everyday lives. A class of technologies that is becoming increasingly more prominent in discussions of the future are sex robots. In this article, we present a qualitative analysis of posts from a ...
Automated Usability Evaluation of Virtual Reality Applications
Virtual reality (VR) and VR applications have reached the end-user and, hence, the demands on usability, also for novel applications, have increased. This situation requires VR usability evaluation methods that can be applied quickly, even after a first ...
Infrastructuring Public Service Transformation: Creating Collaborative Spaces between Communities and Institutions through HCI Research
- Clara Crivellaro,
- Rob Anderson,
- Daniel Lambton-Howard,
- Tom Nappey,
- Patrick Olivier,
- Vasilis Vlachokyriakos,
- Alexander Wilson,
- Pete Wright
HCI has a tradition of engaging in democratic practices and contributing to public service innovation. Working with complex socio-political realities presents significant challenges for HCI researchers, which are amplified by the current democratic and ...
Isopleth: Supporting Sensemaking of Professional Web Applications to Create Readily Available Learning Experiences
Online resources can help novice developers learn basic programming skills, but few resources support progressing from writing working code to learning professional web development practices. We address this gap by advancing Readily Available Learning ...
Music, Search, and IoT: How People (Really) Use Voice Assistants
Voice has become a widespread and commercially viable interaction mechanism with the introduction of voice assistants (VAs), such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft’s Cortana. Despite their prevalence, we do not have a ...
The Role of Social Computing Technologies in Grassroots Movement Building
Social movement organizing is becoming increasingly dependent on communication technologies. How can Computer-Supported Cooperative Work systems support grassroots organizations in facilitating collective action through democratic participation? In this ...
Enact: Reducing Designer–Developer Breakdowns When Prototyping Custom Interactions
Professional designers and developers often struggle when transitioning between the design and implementation of an interactive system. We conducted three studies that focused on the design of custom interactions to understand the mismatches between ...