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We have been developing electronic Realistic Books that combine the natural advantages of electronic documents---full-text search, hyperlinks, animation, multimedia---with those of conventional books---the ambient information provided by the physical ...

In this paper we describe the many evaluations that have been required to ensure that the learning appliance, IMMEDIATE, provides, in an accessible manner, the required functionality for supporting distance teaching. An iterate and revise approach was ...

Documentation and collaboration are critical elements for malware analysis, however current tool support falls short of enabling a means for these activities in a low level domain. An initial survey not only confirms how important these elements are, ...

In this paper we describe our initial ideas towards research investigating dance-driven 3-D-camera interaction as a tool for creating holistic pieces of art for an enriched performance experience.

In the first part, we focus on the technical analysis of ...

The set of tests developed to assess the internal validity of a user interface (UI) pattern languages [27, 28] form the basis of the proposed UI pattern language maturity model (UMM). UMM uses the UI pattern modelling technique developed for describing ...

In this paper we describe the findings from experiments that were conducted to test two hypotheses on the behavior of designers when collaborating around an interactive tabletop. The experiments were conducted using the tabletop, DiamondTouch. In order ...

This paper describes the design and results of an exploratory user study to explore the concept of views on information objects. The concept was developed to support personalized sharing of documents in a distributed environment. Different to typical ...

Four simple single-player games (based on the "Four Arts" of traditional Chinese culture) have been designed in Flash for a touch-screen display. The aim is to allow players to experience a digital interactive recreation of traditional Chinese culture, ...

Often studies of children's technology use in the classroom is internally focused and small scale. This study attempts a globalised exploratory overview of an entire New Zealand middle school to understand the technology usages across a range of ...

Tag clouds are relatively new, visual representations of tags - and are becoming increasingly popular on the web today. They have shown great potential for use as visualisation or interaction techniques; however, at the same time they have also been ...

We present a description and an evaluation of the interface for the TrekWizard, a tool that adds value to raw location information available to trekkers from the GPS system. The interface has a novel component for providing distance and time readouts, ...

This paper presents a novel approach for designing bodily engaging games based on fundamental skills and gaming characteristics specific to interactive sports. The concept of kinesthetic empathy interaction is used to articulate the space of interaction ...

Meters and gauges based on analogue pointers provide a convenient way to visualise single dimensional data streams, such as speed, voltage, altitude, or fuel level. However, often a small amount of historical information helps to understand the data at ...

A range of technology for monitoring electricity consumption at residential homes is gradually becoming available to users. Almost all of these systems, however, only aim to assist users with reducing their total power consumption, without being ...

While touch tables have improved support for creative, co-located, collaborative tasks, the very act of studying what groups create on such tables (and how) remains non-trivially difficult. We developed an experimental tool to study what map designs ...

As a result of users' well-documented frustrations with complex library information systems, it has long been assumed that they would prefer a Google-like single search box for to library resources. Early studies of such systems, however, have reported ...

Information and Communication Technology can extend the reach of lecturers in time and space. To address factors influencing acceptance of this technology we tracked the relative rates at which university students downloaded simple audio+slide ...

Using Computer Vision techniques, a system was designed that automatically creates 3D virtual building models from 2D diagrams, such as architectural blueprints. The software creates vertex point data from the distinct features found in these 2D ...