{"title":"The (Ir)relevance of Robot Cuteness: An Exploratory Study of Emotionally Durable Robot Design","authors":"C. Caudwell, Cherie Lacey, E. B. Sandoval","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369463","url":null,"abstract":"The recent failure of several much-hyped companion robots raises questions about the ability of robot design to foster long-term engagement and attachment, and the consumer receptiveness to this application of technology. To better understand where the limitations lie in designing robots as companions, we explore the the psychosocial role of 'cute' embodiment in human-robot interaction (HRI), and in particular its capacity encourage meaningful relationships. To do so, we apply the Emotionally Durable Design framework to recently failed companion robots, assessing how elements of the cute robot design could support or discourage sustained emotional investment from a human user. We find that, although the companion robots studied have the potential to meet much of the Emotionally Durable Design framework, the execution of their social and assistive features did not support natural or easy interactions, and that their material embodiment does not allow for unique customisation or growth. More tellingly, we highlight that the usefulness of companion robots in everyday life is, as yet, unclear. We conclude by suggesting a multi-disciplinary, design-led approach to companion robots in order to develop emotionally durable and meaningful relationships in HRI.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133031564","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}
B. Stigall, Jenny Waycott, Steven Baker, Kelly E. Caine
{"title":"Older Adults' Perception and Use of Voice User Interfaces: A Preliminary Review of the Computing Literature","authors":"B. Stigall, Jenny Waycott, Steven Baker, Kelly E. Caine","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369506","url":null,"abstract":"Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are quickly becoming ubiquitous. The natural language interface of VUIs may be more usable for some groups of users, such as those who may face challenges using physical input methods including older adults and people living with a disability. This study explores research on the use of VUIs by one such group, older adults. We conducted a systematic literature review of research published in the Association of Computing Machinery Digital Library that addresses perception and use of VUIs by older adults. We identified an emerging body of research examining older adults' use and perceptions of VUIs. This research revealed several potential benefits of voice interaction for older adults while also highlighting how the novelty of the technology may be a barrier to adoption. We conclude with a call for further HCI research in this area.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115759754","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":"Exploring Smart Cooling Garments for Endurance Cycling Athletes","authors":"T. Wickramarathne, A. Mahmud, B. Kuys","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369532","url":null,"abstract":"Cooling comfort is an essential requirement to maintain the health and well-being of endurance athletes. The high-temperature climate conditions exist in tropical countries intensify this requirement. Therefore, we conducted this study to derive smart cooling garment concepts, to fulfil the cooling requirements of endurance cycling athletes living in Sri Lanka, which is a tropical country. Four focus group sessions and four brainstorming workshops were conducted with endurance cycling athletes living in Sri Lanka. The study participants identified user-controllable cooling, zonal cooling, sweat evaporation and cost-effectiveness as essential considerations. Based on the results, we explored three prototypes for the smart cooling garment. These are Peltier cooling concept with manual control, fan cooling concept with manual control and automatic cooling concept. We describe the construction of the three prototypes along with the plan for future evaluations.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123719680","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}
Wafa Johal, A. Tran, Hala Khodr, Ayberk Özgür, P. Dillenbourg
{"title":"TIP","authors":"Wafa Johal, A. Tran, Hala Khodr, Ayberk Özgür, P. Dillenbourg","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369539","url":null,"abstract":"While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the use of tangible manipulatives interacting with paper sheets as a bridge between digital and paper traces of learning. Featuring an e-Ink display, a paper-based localisation system and a wireless connection, TIPs are envisioned to be used as a versatile tool across various curriculum activities. In this paper, we present the design principles of TIPs and a first functional prototype. We conclude by presenting future works in the evaluation of TIPs as a distributed sensor for teachers in their classroom, including learning scenario examples to illustrate our statements.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121605412","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":"Women and the Spatial Politics of Community Networks: Invisible in the sociotechnical imaginary of wireless connectivity","authors":"N. Bidwell","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369474","url":null,"abstract":"Community Networks (CNs) offer many positive impacts for rural inhabitants of low-income regions beyond cheap communications, including different benefits to local economies, social welfare and personal well-being. However, spatial politics compromise diverse inclusion in these benefits by rendering women invisible when the wireless technologies used by CNs are designed, deployed and referred to in discussions about regulation. I support this claim by drawing together insights from multiple case research of rural CNs in India, Indonesia, Argentina Mexico, South Africa and Uganda, and my engagement with activists advocating for CNs. The spatial politics shaping debates about spectrum regulation, and the wireless technologies to which they apply, are at different scales than women in rural villages experience. Gendered spatial politics perform orthogonally across all scales and dimensions to constrain women's proximal access to WiFi, capacity to learn about and undertake technical tasks and involvement in decisions about CNs; however, advocacy for CNs works across vast geographies.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122895208","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":"Ability-based Optimization: Design and Evaluation of Touchscreen Keyboards for Older Adults with Dyslexia","authors":"S. Sarcar","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369519","url":null,"abstract":"This short paper investigates a computational approach toward improving user interface designs for older adults with cognitive impairments. We explore keyboard design on touchscreen devices where individual abilities are parametrically expressed as part of a task-specific cognitive model, and the model estimates how the individual might adapt user interaction to the task. The resultant design can potentially improve speed and reduce errors for older adults having dyslexia over the baseline QWERTY layout. We believe that the proposed computational touchscreen design approach will be able to develop interface designs more adapted to the specific abilities of the aging populations.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129656240","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":"A Design Archival Approach to Knowledge Production in Design Research and Practice","authors":"Søren Rasmussen, J. Fritsch, N. B. Hansen","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369476","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we develop the notion of design archives to understand how different forms of knowledge are systematically accumulated and shared in and across design processes. Drawing on philosophy and media theory, we present a working definition of design archives as more than documentation. Through an interview study, we investigate how various archives systematically inform design work and govern the way design processes are represented and reflected upon. The study provides insights into an abundance of tools used to access, record, store and share information. We highlight the difference between personal, shared, and public archives, different archival barriers for sharing, how prototypes act as (an)archival conduits of design potentials, and how information (and people) tend to get lost in the archives. Finally, we discuss how a design archival approach might help identify power relations in design while also facilitating a move from 'dead' to 'living' archives in design work.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128394104","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":"Viewer Arousal Display System Using Eye-Tracking and Skin Conductance Data","authors":"Masaki Omata, Kaito Shimizu","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369481","url":null,"abstract":"We developed a viewer arousal display system that can represent the viewers' physiological responses about emotional arousal in fixation areas on frames of a viewed video by measuring and recording viewers' physiological signals and eye movements. We implemented two prototypes of the system. One of the prototypes superimposes the information in position, hue, and saturation of heat maps on the video. The second prototype represents the information with position, height, and color of bar graphs around the video. The system can solve a problem in previous systems, which were unable to display an important area in a frame of a video and can be useful for video creators or analyzers to estimate and analyze viewers' responses to a video. Additionally, we conducted an experiment to verify the effectiveness of the system. The results demonstrate that the fixation areas that the system calculated from the eye-tracking generally overlapped with the subjective reported attention points. However, the subjective arousal values varied slightly from the estimated arousal values from the SC data.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121286969","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":"Shaking the Tree: Understanding Historic and Future Representation of Women at OzCHI","authors":"Dana Mckay, G. Buchanan","doi":"10.1145/3369457.3369504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369504","url":null,"abstract":"Gender equity is an issue of increasing importance in the technology industry generally and HCI specifically. Women are historically underrepresented at all levels, but moreso in senior roles; conversely visible senior women increase female participation generally. In this paper we present the first scientometric analysis of OzCHI examining the interaction between gender and role seniority, showing that overall female representation is quite good, but we need to be cautious to preserve it. This is the first analysis of this type to examine the issue of gender in any HCI venue.","PeriodicalId":258766,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121334870","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}