In the previous research, the vibrotactile flow that can be generated by the excitation pattern utilizing structural resonance phenomena of a thin plate was smoother than the vibrotactile flow generated by the convent...
In the previous research, the vibrotactile flow that can be generated by the excitation pattern utilizing structural resonance phenomena of a thin plate was smoother than the vibrotactile flow generated by the conventional apparent tactile movement and phantom sensation methods. This paper further investigates effects of three design parameters (signal-duration, time-interval between the two actuating signals, cutoff-time) in the excitation pattern on the smoothness of the vibrotactile flow. User study results show that the time-interval between the two actuating signals is the most important parameter while the signal-duration is the second. This fact can be effectively used when designing an excitation pattern that can generate smoother vibrotactile flow.
The requirements for funding for HCI research are changing globally. In this SIG meeting, we will review with panel members and high-level grant decision makers from different continents and countries how the requirem...
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HCI professionals have developed design principles, guidelines, and standards dealing with consistency, informative feedback, error prevention, shortcuts for experts, and user control. Micro-HCI researchers can take c...
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HCI professionals have developed design principles, guidelines, and standards dealing with consistency, informative feedback, error prevention, shortcuts for experts, and user control. Micro-HCI researchers can take comfort in dealing with wellstated requirements, clear benchmark tasks, established measures of human performance, and effective predictive models, such as Fitts' Law. Macro-HCI researchers and developers design and build interfaces in expanding areas, such as affective experience, aesthetics, motivation, social participation, trust, empathy, responsibility, and privacy. Although micro-HCI and macro-HCI have healthy overlaps, they attract different types of researchers, practitioners, and activists, thereby further broadening the scope and impact of HCI in general. Since commercial, social, legal, and ethical considerations play an increasing role in all areas of HCI, educational curricula and professional practices need to be updated regularly;midcareer continuing education for HCI professionals will help keep them current.
Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal usage of reusable software libraries, thus facilitating software reuse. However, even with such documents, developers often overl...
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(纸本)9781467310673
Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal usage of reusable software libraries, thus facilitating software reuse. However, even with such documents, developers often overlook some documents and build software systems that are inconsistent with the legal usage of those libraries. Existing software verification tools require formal specifications (such as code contracts), and therefore cannot directly verify the legal usage described in natural language text in API documents against code using that library. However, in practice, most libraries do not come with formal specifications, thus hindering tool-based verification. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach to infer formal specifications from natural language text of API documents. Our evaluation results show that our approach achieves an average of 92% precision and 93% recall in identifying sentences that describe code contracts from more than 2500 sentences of API documents. Furthermore, our results show that our approach has an average 83% accuracy in inferring specifications from over 1600 sentences describing code contracts.
Several steps that need to be followed to ensure better reporting and tracking of medical errors are presented. One of steps is to use improved electronic health records (EHR) user-interface designs that offer healthc...
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Several steps that need to be followed to ensure better reporting and tracking of medical errors are presented. One of steps is to use improved electronic health records (EHR) user-interface designs that offer healthcare providers shorter learn-times, faster performance, and lower interface error rates. A second step should be agreements on user interface consistency and data interoperability among the 100-plus developers of EHR. Such guidelines for consistency and data sharing, common in other industries, would allow healthcare professionals who work at more than one location to do their jobs more efficiently and safely. Guidelines for user interfaces and public reporting of usability testing for errors would lay the foundation for changes in the way data is handled. The independent oversight panels, convened by healthcare providers, professional organizations, and government agencies, would specify improvements in information technologies and processes for software developers, hospitals, and labs.
The intertwining of everyday life and computation, along with a new generation of inexpensive digital recording devices and storage facilities, is revolutionizing our ability to collect and analyze human activity data...
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We present DataPrism, a new interactive visualization tool to aid analysis of multimodal activity data. DataPrism enables analysts to visualize, annotate, and link multiple time-based data streams, including video, lo...
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Model-based GUI software testing is an emerging paradigm for automatically generating test suites. In the context of GUIs, a test case is a sequence of events to be executed which may detect faults in the application....
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Model-based GUI software testing is an emerging paradigm for automatically generating test suites. In the context of GUIs, a test case is a sequence of events to be executed which may detect faults in the application. However, a test case may be infeasible if one or more of the events in the event sequence are disabled or made inaccessible by a previously executed event (e.g., a button may be disabled until another GUI widget enables it). These infeasible test cases terminate prematurely and waste resources, so software testers would like to modify the test suite execution to run only feasible test cases. Current techniques focus on repairing the test cases to make them feasible, but this relies on executing all test cases, attempting to repair the test cases, and then repeating this process until a stopping condition has been met. We propose avoiding infeasible test cases altogether by predicting which test cases are infeasible using two supervised machine learning methods: support vector machines (SVMs) and grammar induction. We experiment with three feature extraction techniques and demonstrate the success of the machine learning algorithms for classifying infeasible GUI test cases in several subject applications. We further demonstrate a level of robustness in the algorithms when training and classifying test cases of different lengths.
This panel will contribute diverse perspectives on the use of computer technology to promote peace and prevent armed conflict. These perspectives include: the use of social media to promote democracy and citizen parti...
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(纸本)9781450302289
This panel will contribute diverse perspectives on the use of computer technology to promote peace and prevent armed conflict. These perspectives include: the use of social media to promote democracy and citizen participation, the role of computers in helping people communicate across division lines in zones of conflict, how persuasive technology can promote peace, and how interaction design can play a role in post-conflict reconciliation.
A growing number of projects are solving complex computational and scientific tasks by soliciting human feedback through games. Many games with a purpose focus on generating textual tags for images. In contrast, we in...
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A growing number of projects are solving complex computational and scientific tasks by soliciting human feedback through games. Many games with a purpose focus on generating textual tags for images. In contrast, we introduce a new game, Odd Leaf Out, which provides players with an enjoyable and educational game that serves the purpose of identifying misclassification errors in a large database of labeled leaf images. The game uses a novel mechanism to solicit useful information from players' incorrect answers. A study of 165 players showed that game data can be used to identify mislabeled leaves much more quickly than would have been possible using a computer vision algorithm alone. Domain novices and experts were equally good at identifying mislabeled images, although domain experts enjoyed the game more. We discuss the successes and challenges of this new game, which can be applied to other domains with labeled image datasets.
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