{"title":"Capturing seniors' requirements for assistive robots by the use of attention cards","authors":"S. Frennert, B. Östlund, Håkan Eftring","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399146","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes and reflects upon a senior-oriented participatory design methodology that facilitates communication, attention and creativity. Previous research indicates that seniors tend to lose focus and start cross talking during workshops, which results in broad and superficial findings. However, our workshop methodology indicates that the use of attention cards helps the seniors to stay focused by visualizing concrete first person narrative scenarios. This paper does not describe the findings of the workshop. Instead, we use our experience to propose ways in which the process of eliciting user requirements for novel technologies from old users with no prior experience of the technology in question can be made.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125143126","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}
G. Lefebvre, Emmanuelle Boyer, Sophie Zijp-Rouzier
{"title":"Coupling gestures with tactile feedback: a comparative user study","authors":"G. Lefebvre, Emmanuelle Boyer, Sophie Zijp-Rouzier","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399075","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sheds some new light on an experimental evaluation in the field of tactile feedback generation on Smartphone. Tactile feedback on current mobile devices is actually limited therefore we explore using dynamic tactile feedback to improve gesture provision. The main objective is to better understand issues related to touch interactions coupled with tactile feedback. We investigate three dynamic models based on gesture properties in a formal experiment with 24 participants. A fourth uniform feedback model is used as a decoy model. We use a model based on the tension of a spring, a model based on the torque force of a knob and a model based on the gesture curvature. The results evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of each tactile feedback model in an initial reproduction task of reference shapes. The experiment shows dynamic feedback models have some effects on the complexity and the type of gesture. Coupling tactile feedback during user interactions offers good guidance and even more when the tactile model uses the kinetic properties of the user gestures. The subjective evaluations show that the preferred tactile feedback model by the user is the tension of a spring. This pilot evaluation may serve as a reference for future researches in touch based interfaces.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133467649","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}
Thomas Meneweger, Petra Sundström, Marianna Obrist, M. Tscheligi
{"title":"How designers can make sense of qualitative research findings: a case study","authors":"Thomas Meneweger, Petra Sundström, Marianna Obrist, M. Tscheligi","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399041","url":null,"abstract":"How to communicate qualitative research findings so that they make sense, become useful and manage to inspire designers is still an issue in HCI. There is a need for methods and tools supporting this transfer of knowledge and stimulate design thinking. But before we can form methods and tools we need carefully presented case studies to help us shape these methods and tools. In this paper we present how we made use of the extreme characters method to communicate the essence of a high-level typology formed from eight narrative interviews on the meaning of home. We describe how applying this method enabled a group of eight workshop participants, unfamiliar with the typology, to use the typology to generate a range of innovative design features and open up new design spaces.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133624440","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":"DrawUX: web-based research tool for long-term user experience evaluation","authors":"Jari Varsaluoma, Ville Kentta","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399138","url":null,"abstract":"DrawUX is a web-based research tool for retrospective long-term user experience evaluation especially in remote studies. Users sketch a curve and add text comments to report how their experience on a product or service has changed during the time of use. DrawUX provides both quantitative and qualitative data about users' experiences during a long-term use of a product or service.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123236755","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":"The productive role of material design artefacts in participatory design events","authors":"N. B. Hansen, Peter Dalsgård","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399117","url":null,"abstract":"Physical design artefacts are employed in a wide range of participatory design events, yet there are few comprehensive discussions of the properties and qualities of them in the literature of the field. In this paper, we examine the productive role of material design artefacts in participatory design events. First, we offer a theoretical foundation for understanding material artefacts in design, based on pragmatist philosophy. Then, we employ this theoretical perspective to analyse a case in which a range of physical design materials was employed to envision and explore a projected building, the \"Urban Media Space\" a new library in Aarhus, Denmark. Drawing on examples from this case, we define a series of design considerations for employing material design artefacts in collaborative design events. Our contribution is valuable both in advancing the theoretical standpoint of interaction design in general, and in allowing participatory design practitioners to reflect on their use of material design artefacts when involving users.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121347879","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":"Demonstrating idAnimate: a multi-touch system for sketching and rapidly manipulating animations","authors":"J. Quevedo-Fernández, J. Martens","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399137","url":null,"abstract":"This demonstration presents idAnimate, a multi-touch application for sketching animations. Thanks to the affordances provided by multitouch interfaces, idAnimate yields a novel, intuitive and easy to use animation technique named transformation-by-example, that allows users to author animations in minimal time. This is achieved by transforming objects through commonly accepted multi-touch gestures (pan, pinch and rotation) while the system records and time-stamps the changes over time. Building complex animations is achieved through incrementally building sequences of transformations. In addition, objects may have multiple visual states that can be changed dynamically over time and combined with the transformations.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"317 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121348040","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":"Enhanced feed-forward for a user aware multi-touch device","authors":"Georg Freitag, Michael Tränkner, M. Wacker","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399104","url":null,"abstract":"Common multi-touch devices guide the user with feedback visualization during or after a registered interaction. Feed-forward techniques are less frequently used or not common at all. Our approach aims at a continuous process in which the system is aware of the users before, during, and after an explicit interaction takes place. This opens up the possibility for novel scenarios of user centered applications. Our setup utilizes Microsofts's depth-camera Kinect to collect the user's posture data in combination with a multi-touch device. This is a low cost and easy to install approach for collecting detailed information about the people and their position in close proximity of a multi-touch table as well as the location of their physical contact. Based on this information, we propose five phases of interaction and analyze the sequence of input during a typical workflow. Eight application concepts show the relevance of these phases using appropriate forms of visualization and we evaluated three of those concepts in a user-study.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"879 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126977124","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":"User interviews revisited: identifying user positions and system interpretations","authors":"Eeva Raita","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399119","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the history of HCI, interviews have been utilized for collecting users' subjective evaluations of interactive technology. This paper raises the issue that these interviews are often deployed in a manner overlooking two aspects of evaluation: the relative positions from which the system is evaluated and the interviewees' interpretations of the system. In the study, 14 users of a new information system were asked to evaluate provocative claims about the system's usability. The analyses of their responses reveal two sources of variation: what is being evaluated and who is evaluating it. Interviewees evaluated the system's usability from five user positions: end user, supervisor, organization's representative, co-developer, and outsider. Also, four \"faces\" of the system were interpreted: UI, utility, communication medium, and unknown entity. These findings are employed for drawing of broader conclusions about the system and its use, and procedures for improving user interviews in HCI are presented.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116163456","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":"Assessing ICT user groups","authors":"Benjamin Weiss, I. Wechsung, Stefanie Marquardt","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399059","url":null,"abstract":"A questionnaire to assess attitude towards information and communication technology (ICT) and experience with it is developed and evaluated. With 30 items user attributes are collected on six factors. With this questionnaire, individual users can be clustered in accordance with an existing ICT taxonomy. A revised version is proposed after the validation of the first questionnaire. This screening instrument is meant to complement existing methods of assessing competency with technology. Furthermore, the possibility to classify users within the ICT taxonomy provides additional means to analyze data from interaction experiments and to screen prospective participants for usability tests and scientific experiments.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"446 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116407507","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":"Cursor dynamics: aesthetic exploration of the bubble cursor","authors":"R. Fraher","doi":"10.1145/2399016.2399136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399136","url":null,"abstract":"This demonstration involves two interactive prototypes that explore how rich media (e.g., animation, sound) and keyboard interaction can be used to aesthetically enhance an unconventional interaction technique known as a bubble cursor [3]. The project's methodology can be understood as design exploration research [2]. The theoretical framework used to guide the investigation involves Barry's [1] neurological model of perceptual aesthetics and Laurel's [5] Computers as Theatre paradigm. The purpose of the demonstration is to spur dialogue and gather feedback to inform future research.","PeriodicalId":352513,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128402264","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}