María Teresa Lozano Albalate, Raquel Trillo Lado, M. Villarroya-Gaudó, A. Allueva, E. Cerezo
{"title":"An ICT experience in Computer Women Role promotion: WikinformáticA! in Aragón: Promoting the use of Wiki tools and visualizing the role of women in ICT","authors":"María Teresa Lozano Albalate, Raquel Trillo Lado, M. Villarroya-Gaudó, A. Allueva, E. Cerezo","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829901","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the number of female students that enroll in technical (architectural and engineering) degrees is quite low. So, numerous initiatives have arisen to promote these degrees and encourage female students to develop activities related to technical areas. In particular, we have organized the contest called WikinformáticA! in Aragón. This contest was designed in order to achieve the following main goals: 1) encouraging female students to study degrees related to Information and Communication Technology (ICT), 2) disclosing the history of prominent women in the field of ICT in order to serve as role-model for new generations of female students, and 3) promoting collaborative work by means of Wiki tools and the use of search tools for images. In this paper, we describe in detail how the context was organized, its development, and the results obtained by the different teams that participated.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116774591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CamScan, an Application to Identify Everyday Objects for Users with Vision Impairments","authors":"Rodrigo Capa-Arnao, C. Manresa-Yee, Ramon Mas","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829889","url":null,"abstract":"Technology can help users with blindness or vision impairments to overcome everyday challenges. Furthermore, the widespread acceptance and use of mobile phones, makes it suitable to develop accessible technologies on these devices. One common problem that users with vision impairments face is the identification of everyday objects, especially when these objects have a similar shape as others (e.g. cans, CDs). Different works have tackled this problem including object recognition and remote workers on the internet who answer questions on the image sent. This work approaches this problem and presents new features with the aim of bringing new capture possibilities and then discusses the findings","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134006894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feng Feng, T. Stockman, N. Bryan-Kinns, Dena Al-Thani
{"title":"An investigation into the comprehension of map information presented in audio","authors":"Feng Feng, T. Stockman, N. Bryan-Kinns, Dena Al-Thani","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829896","url":null,"abstract":"The growth in mobile and multimodal Computing is leading to the consideration of alternative modes of information presentation, particularly in situations such as driving or walking in unfamiliar locations where the eyes are needed for primary navigation. We report the results of an experiment in which map information is presented to 10 normally sighted participants using an auditory display. Several measures of performance are reported, including the time to navigate a virtual route, keystroke errors and the ability to construct a visual representation of the route travelled based on audio instructions only. The results show significant variability in levels of performance between individuals, though most participants were able to make sense of the auditory display and produce a reasonable visual representation of the virtual route i.e. participants were able to comprehend the presented audio map.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133848522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Intracellular Computer-Human Interaction: a micro-electronic perspective","authors":"J. Plaza","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829941","url":null,"abstract":"Success of the semiconductor industry has been driven in part by the miniaturization process, as approximately every three years we see a new generation of memory chips and microprocessors, in which the size of their fundamental elements, the transistors, is reduced 33%. The sizes of these transistors are several orders of magnitude smaller in relation typical human body cell (tens of microns of diameter). The microfabrication techniques of the electronics industry are being also routinely adapted to fabricate systems which are able to integrate mechanical, thermal, optical, magnetic, chemical, or even fluidics components in the same silicon chip, in addition to combining them with electronic components. These silicon chips inside human living cells could provide endless possibilities, beyond the scope of our imagination. In this talk, we present our research in the bases of this incipient future field. We believe that the study of this field will open a new line of research based on Human-Computer Interactions to investigate the relationship between chips and human living cells, human organs or human actors.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123451026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"KINDERTIVITY: Using Interactive Surfaces to Foster Creativity in Pre-kindergarten Children","authors":"Vicente Nacher, J. Martínez","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829881","url":null,"abstract":"Taking into account the existent educative and pedagogical techniques, which have proved its effectiveness to foster the innovation and creativity, this thesis poses to develop, experiment and evaluate a new technological framework based on interactive surfaces to be applied in the context of preschool education. The goal is to facilitate the three factors required for creative learning: knowledge, creative thinking and motivation but taking into account the cognitive and interaction limitations of these very young users.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125544089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paulo C. Realpe, C. Collazos, J. Hurtado, T. Granollers
{"title":"Towards an Integration of Usability and Security for User Authentication","authors":"Paulo C. Realpe, C. Collazos, J. Hurtado, T. Granollers","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829912","url":null,"abstract":"Computer security is one of the more important tasks currently in the digital world. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is little research for designing effective interfaces in the context of security management systems. Security problems for these systems include vulnerabilities due to hard to use systems and poor user interfaces due to security constraints. Nowadays, finding a good trade-off between security and usability is a challenge, mainly for user authentication services. This paper presents a systematic review about usability principles, evaluation methods and development processes for security systems. Moreover, a research approach to integrate usability and security for user authentication systems is proposed.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"28 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120871666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Ly, J. Hurtienne, Robert Tscharn, Samir Aknine, Audrey Serna
{"title":"Towards Intelligent and Implicit Assistance for People with Dementia: Support for Orientation and Navigation","authors":"N. Ly, J. Hurtienne, Robert Tscharn, Samir Aknine, Audrey Serna","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829899","url":null,"abstract":"To date, most healthcare technologies for orientation and navigation for people with dementia or with cognitive impairments have been developed for outdoor environments. These systems require skills in handling smartphone or PDA applications from users. In this paper, the authors focus on the needs of people with moderate and severe dementia, who are unable to use smartphones and are living in nursing homes or specialized fulltime care facilities. A new approach is presented, based on iterative people-centered design processes, explores calm computing and implicit interaction paradigms for guiding people with subtle cues integrated in the indoor environment. This intelligent and implicit assistance is supported by a three-part framework: a tracking system, a separate guiding system and an intelligent system. The guiding system approach has been tested on several people with dementia. The first results are promising and the feedback from stakeholders is positive but more participants are needed for an empirical analysis.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131262106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional virtual agent for mobile devices","authors":"S. Baldassarri, E. Cerezo","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829907","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing amount of computational capacity of mobile devices allowed the development of real time multimodal applications. This kind of systems use to employ virtual agents for improving the communication between services and users. In this work, we present an agent-based application that allows multimodal and emotional interaction with the users through different channels: visual, oral and written. The system has been assessed with real users in order to verify the virtual character's ability to express emotions.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"181 1-2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132880089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diana Arellano, V. Helzle, U. Schaller, R. Rauh, Marc Spicker, O. Deussen
{"title":"The SARA Project: An Interactive Sandbox for Research on Autism","authors":"Diana Arellano, V. Helzle, U. Schaller, R. Rauh, Marc Spicker, O. Deussen","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829884","url":null,"abstract":"SARA is an ongoing research project that investigates in a novel and artistic way the causes for social communication and emotion recognition deficits in children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The novelty of our work resides in the real-time generation and parameterization of emotional facial expressions of virtual characters by means of speed, intensity and abstraction, the latter achieved by non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) techniques. Although the project is currently in an ongoing phase, it shows the potential of using virtual characters and real-time techniques for interactive experiments, which otherwise would be impossible using \"linear stimuli\" (e.g. pre-rendered animations).","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132153770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Paderewski, M. G. Arenas, R. G. Iranzo, C. González-González, E. M. Ortigosa, N. Zea
{"title":"Bringing closer women to engineering: projects and strategies that promote their inclusion","authors":"P. Paderewski, M. G. Arenas, R. G. Iranzo, C. González-González, E. M. Ortigosa, N. Zea","doi":"10.1145/2829875.2829905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829905","url":null,"abstract":"There is a problem with the number of women who study engineering nowadays. To solve this problem, several projects and strategies have been carried out, in and out of Spain, by Universities, Secondary Schools, Institutes and, even Companies. This paper deals with these projects and reviews the related data about the women and engineering degrees. At the end, we describe a set of proposal or initiatives that could improve the current situation. This proposal includes the \"empathic co-creation\" that would take place from primary education.","PeriodicalId":137603,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124742762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}