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Stair climbing is a physical activity that can easily be performed in daily life and has a positive influence on, amongst others, cardiovascular health and the prevention of frailty. Health interventions have shown to be effective in motivating stair ...

In a child-centered game design process, game ideas collected from players are a valuable source for designers to inspire the creation of game concepts. A question that often arises is how to deal with large amounts of collected information, or more ...

In today's rapidly developing Internet, the web sites and services end users see are more and more composed of multiple services, originating from many different providers in a dynamic way. This means that it can be difficult for the user to single out ...

This paper presents a design exploration of full-body interaction games played in cars. It describes how we have designed, implemented, and evaluated the core experiences of three different games, which were all aimed at making sitting properly more fun ...

While we can rely on a wide variety of techniques and methods from human and social sciences to collect narratives within human-computer interaction, the knowledge about the specific characteristics of this source and their systematic use for user ...

This paper is aimed at studying information technology acceptance in an automotive context. Most models of technology acceptance focus on barriers of successful information technology implementation in organizations, while factors that take the ...

This workshop aims to identify and improve current strategies and practices for transferring knowledge from qualitative user studies to become inspiration for an experience-centered design process. The message (e.g., qualitative user study results) can ...

Different methods, techniques and tools exist for supporting design activities in a user-centered design process. Due to the increasing relevance of experience-centered design, the need to advance existing design methods and tools becomes evident. ...

This paper summarizes best practices for improving user experience (UX) of audio-visual networked applications such as YouTube, Flickr, or Facebook. Designing for a good UX is becoming increasingly important within the HCI community. However, there is ...

Patterns represent an important tool for communicating, documenting and looking up best practices for both novice and expert system developers and designers. Although there are a number of different patterns and pattern languages available, it is still ...

Up to now interaction in desktop games is mostly limited to keyboard and mouse input. This paper describes a desktop game, which uses emotional facial expressions as an additional input channel for creating a virtual flower in a digital universe. The ...

Local communities are communities that have relationships in real life due to the physical location of their households. IPTV can be a way to support these local communities (either in their establishment, in fostering relationships, or even in extending ...

Participatory design methods are increasingly used to investigate design ideas for new forms of information and communication technologies. We present a methodological variation of a user-centered idea generation, with children using a playful setting in ...

Involving users in scenario development within participatory design is challenging as it places users at the same level with designers. In our research we stated a need for a structured scenario development process, which is suitable for various research ...

The promises of IPTV and related changes of the traditional TV environment are broadly discussed in the EuroiTV community. In this paper we present preliminary, qualitative results from a user evaluation conducted for an IPTV community platform ...

Enhancing local communities is seen as an enrichment of people's life by providing additional possibilities for the building of relationships and identities. The question is how to improve these local social ties and how to promote interaction among ...

In this article we present the findings of two ethnographic studies embedded into two broader projects on interactive television in the home environment. Based on previous research on the home context and inspired by ongoing trends around interactive ...

Investigating the context home becomes more and more necessary for future developments of interactive TV services and of new interaction techniques. In this paper, findings from two ethnographic studies are presented. In these studies a new ...

Elderly people often experience difficulties using interactive TV. This paper presents the findings of a usability evaluation study in combination with eye-tracking conducted for an information oriented interactive TV application. We explored two user ...