R. Rajapakse, M. Brereton, P. Roe, Laurianne Sitbon
{"title":"Designing with people with disabilities: adapting best practices of DIY and organizational approaches","authors":"R. Rajapakse, M. Brereton, P. Roe, Laurianne Sitbon","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686694","url":null,"abstract":"Individualization of design is often necessary particularly when designing with people with disabilities. Maker communities, with their flexible Do-It-Yourself (DIY) practices, offer potential to support individualized and cost-effective product design. However, efforts to adapt DIY practices in designing with people with disabilities tend to face difficulties with regard to continuous commitment, infrastructure provision and proper guidance. We carried out interviews with diverse stakeholders in the disability services sector and carried out observations of local makerspaces to understand their current practices and potential for future collaborations. We found that makerspace participants face difficulties in terms of infrastructure provision and proper guidance whereas Disability Service Organizations face difficulties in continuous expertise. We suggest that artful infrastructuring to blend the best of both approaches offers potential to create a sustainable community that can design individualized technologies to support people with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115705850","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":"PaperPixels: a toolkit to create paper-based displays","authors":"R. Peiris, Suranga Nanayakkara","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686691","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present PaperPixels, a toolkit for creating subtle and ambient animations on regular paper. This toolkit consists of two main components: (1) a modularised plug and play type elements (PaperPixels elements) that can be attached on the back of regular paper; (2) a GUI (graphical user interface) that allows users to stage the animation in a time line format. A user would simply draw on regular paper, attach PaperPixels elements behind the regions that needs to be animated, and specify the sequence of appearing and disappearing by arranging icons on a simple GUI. Observations made during a workshop at a local maker faire showed the potential of PaperPixels being integrated in many different applications such as animated wallpapers, animated story books.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122337767","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}
H. Davis, S. Pedell, A. Lopez-Lorca, Tim Miller, L. Sterling
{"title":"Researchers as proxies for informal carers: photo sharing with older adults to mediate wellbeing","authors":"H. Davis, S. Pedell, A. Lopez-Lorca, Tim Miller, L. Sterling","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686652","url":null,"abstract":"Social technologies offer potential for enhancing aged care, but research on their use has largely focused on formalized care settings, rather than supporting informal care and wellbeing in the home. We examine the use of a novel social technology 'PictureFrame' to support the provision of wellbeing check use for older adults living at home. We conducted a field study of this photo and message-sharing tool to facilitate and support interaction and wellbeing checks with older people. We outline opportunities and challenges encountered when researchers enabled and supported interactions, and acted as part or full proxies for informal carers. We explore the technical, social and emotional aspects of photo and message sharing. Our findings demonstrate that 'PictureFrame' was valuable for providing reassurance, capturing emotional aspects of caregiving, and for monitoring wellbeing in subtle, non-intrusive ways. The proxy role enabled us to include the view of older adults who could not have participated otherwise.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117127978","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}
Allan Stisen, H. Blunck, M. Kjærgaard, Kaj Grønbæk
{"title":"Handheld versus wearable interaction design for professionals: a case study of hospital service work","authors":"Allan Stisen, H. Blunck, M. Kjærgaard, Kaj Grønbæk","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686651","url":null,"abstract":"With the blooming of new available wrist-worn devices there are potentials for these to support the work done in many professional domains. One such domain is hospital service work. This paper explores two wearable prototypes' challenges and opportunities to support future hospital service work. This explorative study was conducted with 4 experienced hospital orderlies who interacted with an application across two wearable concepts, and one handheld smartphone in five scenarios, not involving patients, in a hospital environment. The interactions were recorded with a chest-mounted camera afterwards semi-structured interviews with each participant were conducted. This study shows that wearable computers can effectively support the maintenance work of the orderlies and has domain-specific advantages over the handheld smartphone, e.g., the former support glancing at the task information. Furthermore, we outline aspects to aid designers of next generation wearable designs for hospital service work.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"342 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123515854","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":"Designing for grassroots food production: an event-based urban agriculture community","authors":"Peter Lyle, J. Choi, M. Foth","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686666","url":null,"abstract":"As urbanisation of the global population has increased above 50%, growing food in urban spaces increases in importance, as it can contribute to food security, reduce food miles, and improve people's physical and mental health. Approaching the task of growing food in urban environments is a mixture of residential growers and groups. Permablitz Brisbane is an event-centric grassroots community that organises daylong 'working bee' events, drawing on permaculture design principles in the planning and design process. Permablitz Brisbane provides a useful contrast from other location-centric forms of urban agriculture communities (such as city farms or community gardens), as their aim is to help encourage urban residents to grow their own food. We present findings and design implications from a qualitative study with members of this group, using ethnographic methods to engage with and understand how this group operates. Our findings describe four themes that include opportunities, difficulties, and considerations for the creation of interventions by Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) designers.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127773760","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}
Jesper Simonsen, M. Hertzum, J. L. Nielsen, Søren Riis
{"title":"Toward a theory for the design of human technologies","authors":"Jesper Simonsen, M. Hertzum, J. L. Nielsen, Søren Riis","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686682","url":null,"abstract":"Design is increasingly becoming a part of the university curriculum and research agenda. A theory about the process and practice of design might be important to establish design as a main subject at universities. We believe it is in the interest of many design communities -- not least the Participatory Design (PD) community -- to engage in theorizing design, on the basis of our understanding of design and design practices. This theory could be positioned as an alternative to other attempts to theorize design, for example the influential efforts of the Information Systems (IS) community. We urge the PD community to engage in collective theory building, and we present a framework intended to support our shared reflections on the design of human technologies.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131395653","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}
S. Zollmann, R. Grasset, Gerhard Reitmayr, T. Langlotz
{"title":"Image-based X-ray visualization techniques for spatial understanding in outdoor augmented reality","authors":"S. Zollmann, R. Grasset, Gerhard Reitmayr, T. Langlotz","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686642","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates different state-of-the-art approaches for implementing an X-ray view in Augmented Reality (AR). Our focus is on approaches supporting a better scene understanding and in particular a better sense of depth order between physical objects and digital objects. One of the main goals of this work is to provide effective X-ray visualization techniques that work in unprepared outdoor environments. In order to achieve this goal, we focus on methods that automatically extract depth cues from video images. The extracted depth cues are combined in ghosting maps that are used to assign each video image pixel a transparency value to control the overlay in the AR view. Within our study, we analyze three different types of ghosting maps, 1) alpha-blending which uses a uniform alpha value within the ghosting map, 2) edge-based ghosting which is based on edge extraction and 3) image-based ghosting which incorporates perceptual grouping, saliency information, edges and texture details. Our study results demonstrate that the latter technique helps the user to understand the subsurface location of virtual objects better than using alpha-blending or the edge-based ghosting.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131698257","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":"Considerations for designing technology with and for persons with aphasia","authors":"A. Al Mahmud","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686698","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides the lessons learned from two design research projects, which deal with designing technology with and for persons with aphasia. We faced several challenges while conducting usability studies, recruiting aphasic individuals and conducting field studies. Based on our experience from the two projects we provide recommendations to design and test interactive systems for people with aphasia.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114315507","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}
Robert T. Tipping, G. Farrell, V. Farrell, C. Woodward
{"title":"From collection to courtroom: perceptions and realities of how the data flows","authors":"Robert T. Tipping, G. Farrell, V. Farrell, C. Woodward","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686626","url":null,"abstract":"There is a strong movement for integrated, technology solutions to be adopted for the presentation of evidence in the Australian courtrooms. Current, commercially available solutions that are being considered create concerns for individual users, as they do not reflect data types or processes within the Australian courts. An individual's understanding of how digital data evidence is collected and prepared for courtroom presentation is derived only from their personal knowledge and activity with the data within the process chain. This user-centred study reflects on the discussions held with the various individuals involved in the process of evidence collection and transformation of digital data to its final format for courtroom evidence presentation. This research has identified the need to take a step back in the design process to substantiate the data flow, and identified the need for justification of how each data type transformation is decided within the process. This research is also of value to stakeholders to understand the stages of the process in which they are not involved.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129552767","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}
Junko Ichino, M. Onda, S. Tano, T. Hashiyama, Mitsuru Iwata
{"title":"User interface design combining a logical and physical structure-based approach","authors":"Junko Ichino, M. Onda, S. Tano, T. Hashiyama, Mitsuru Iwata","doi":"10.1145/2686612.2686622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686622","url":null,"abstract":"With the enormous growth in the amount of information and functionality available, it is increasingly important that the desired information and functions can be easily found and made use of through user interface. To enable users to easily find and use the desired information and functions, both user interface content (logical structure) and user interface appearance (physical structure) need to be easily comprehensible for the user. We have addressed this need by developing a system to support user interface designers following a dual approach, that is logical structure design support based on objective and quantitative analysis of languages used by users themselves, and physical structure design support that takes the stages in the design process into account. The proposed system will make it easier for designers to design user interface using the language of users, as well as user interface that reflects their own creativity.","PeriodicalId":166895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130839396","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}