By design: are Microsoft's animated interface agents helpful?

This poster describes a novel approach that is intended to combine graphical user interfaces (GUI) and voice interaction in the Web throughout the design and the development of intuitive and user-friendly multimodal interfaces. We are considering the ...

When conducting research with users in order to design web applications, the practitioner has a variety of methods from which to choose. This paper examines three such methods'User-Centered Design (UCD), Goal-Directed Design (GDD), and Activity-Centered ...

Participatory design is in essence very malleable as any design technique could lend itself to it, as long as users and stakeholders are involved. Design fictions however, have more often been used as either a vehicle for critical designs, or as a sheer ...