Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster, Rod Murray-smith, Human Factors
[ac, jhw, stephen, rod] @ dcs.gla.ac.uk In this paper, we investigate wrist rotation as a hands-free method of interaction with a mobile device. To evaluate this technique, a Fitts ‟ Law targeting...
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster, Rod Murray-smith, Human Factors
[ac, jhw, stephen, rod] @ dcs.gla.ac.uk In this paper, we investigate wrist rotation as a hands-free method of interaction with a mobile device. To evaluate this technique, a Fitts ‟ Law targeting...
Joan Morris Dimicco, Walter Bender, Human Factors
This paper introduces the application Second Messenger, a tool for supporting face-to-face meetings and discussions. Second Messenger uses a speech-recognition engine as an input method and outputs...
How are Such Problems Created? (2009)
Divesh Srivastava (at, U. Toronto, Part I Motivation, Human Factors
� Linkage methodology, core measures
Matt Calder, Robert F. Cohen, Jessica Lanzoni, Neal L, Joelle Skaff, Human Factors
We present our work in assisting students who are blind to understand fundamental data structures. We have developed a system called PLUMB EXTRA (EXploring data sTRuctures using Audible Algorithm...
Robert F. Cohen, Human Factors
We present our ongoing research in the communication of graphs and relational information to blind computer science Students. We have developed a system called exPLoring graphs at UMB (PLUMB) that...
This study presents interview based case studies of users who work with multiple computers as well as multiple displays. Such users have not been studied before. The behaviour is discussed in terms...
Wingyan Chung, Luis G. Chaboya, Christopher D. O’toole, Homa Atabakhsh, Human Factors
Event visualization holds the promise of alleviating information overload in digital libraries. We propose a methodology for evaluating a coordinated event visualization tool called COPLINK...
Pasi Välkkynen, Ilkka Korhonen, Johan Plomp, Timo Tuomisto, Luc Cluitmans, Heikki Ailisto, ...
user interaction paradigm for physical browsing and
Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia ABSTRACT (2008)
Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Katherine Panciera, Loren Terveen, John Riedl, ...
Wikipedia’s brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is...
Transverse Sector Reports (2008)
Aviation Jeff, Legal Framework, Prof John, Uff Freng, Human Factors, Prof Helen Muir, ...
An examination of the processes that follow from accidents or incidents of high potential in several industries and their effectiveness in preventing further accidents
Accessibility First! A New Approach to Web Design (2008)
This paper proposes an accessibility first pedogogy for web design, in which the course is organized around the requirement of implementing web pages accessible to visually impaired computer users....
Hierarchical Task Analysis: Developments, Applications and Extensions. (2008)
Neville A. Stanton, Human Factors, Integration Defence, Technology Centre, Ub Ph
Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) is a core ergonomics approach with pedigree of over thirty years continuous use. At its heart, HTA is based upon a theory of performance and has only three governing...
Human Factors, Andrew S. Gordon
In this paper, we describe Fourth Frame Forums, an application that combines traditional four-frame comic strips with online webbased discussion forums. In this application, users are presented with...
Quantified Identification of Threat Probability (2008)
Human Factors, Homeland Security, P. A. Hancock, Post Event
(e.g., Haddon, W. Jr (1974). Strategy in preventative medicine: Passive vs. active approaches approaches
interfaces –input devices and strategies. General Terms (2008)
Physical browsing is a mobile terminal and tag based interaction paradigm for pervasive computing environments. The tags offer to the users physical ...
Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information Systems]: User Interfaces General Terms (2008)
This paper proposes a framework in which end-users can instantaneously modify existing Web applications by introducing multimodal user-interface. The authors use the IntelligentPad architecture and...
016 A Shared Augmented Reality System for Communication (2008)
Stephen Ellis, Lawrence Palinkas, Human Factors, S. Ellis, L. Palinkas, N. Kanas, ...
012 Reduced Uncertainty Accounts for the Enhanced
Dr. Immanuel Barshi, Dr. Tina Beard, Dr. Alan Hobbs, Jessica Mock, Dr. John O’hara, Dr. Lance Sherry, ...
The goal of this course is to present detailed case studies from the career experiences of human factors expert Dr. Cynthia Null and her colleagues: Susan
Helmut Prendinger, Human Factors
We propose an infotainment presentation system that relies on eye gaze as an intuitive and unobtrusive input modality. The system analyzes eye movements in real-time to infer users ’ attention,...
With the development of an innovative motion capture and analysis system using frontal infra-red illumination, and based on a systematic study of the relations between the human body movement and the...
Addolorata Cavalluzzi, Berardina De Carolis, Sebastiano Pizzutilo, Giovanni Cozzolongo, Human Factors
In this paper, we present the first results of a research aiming at developing an intelligent agent able to interact with users in public spaces through a touch screen or a personal device. The agent...
Program Synthesis General Terms (2008)
Eric Schwarzkopf, Mathias Bauer, Dietmar Dengler, Human Factors
by example,
Geometric Algorithms, Languages, and Systems General Terms (2008)
This paper proposes a novel method of modelling trajectories followed by users, while they navigate within a virtual environment. Bézier curves provide a good approximation of trajectories, and the...
TELEPHONY APPLICATIONS General E.300–E.319 (2008)
Telephone Service, Service Operation, Human Factors, Phototelegraphy E. –e
Quality of telecommunication services: concepts, models, objectives and dependability planning – Use of quality of service objectives for planning of telecommunication networks Framework of a...
Libraries] User issues. (2008)
Jon Rimmer, Claire Warwick, Human Factors, Ann Bl, Jeremy Gow, George Buchanan
In this paper, we describe the User-Centred Interactive Search Project (UCIS) that is concerned with the needs and behaviours of humanities scholars both in digital and more traditional information...
Interfaces – Graphical user interfaces, interaction techniques. (2008)
Martin Graham, Jessie Kennedy, Human Factors
Natural history museum collections contain a wealth of specimen level data that is now opening up for digital access. However, current interfaces to access and manipulate this data are standard...
Human Factors, C. Benedetto (italy, J. Blaszczyk (poland, Y. Chkitsci (russia, F. Ferlazzo (italy, ...
International Journal”
Louise Barkhuus, Human Factors
This poster presents a study of SMS use among young adults and how they manage their social lives by SMS. It focuses on three features: overcoming shyness, facilitating ‘appropriate behavior’ and...
K.4.m [Computing Milieu]: Computing and Society – miscellaneous General Terms (2008)
Gloria Childress Townsend, Human Factors
This paper includes several reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing, and then describes two low-cost project instances that address the reasons for the decline in women's...
D.2.1 [Software Engineering]: Requirements/Specifications (2008)
Cornelius Poepel, Human Factors
Many musical interfaces are designed to enable a musician for the creation of musical expression. In this process it is the task of the interface to generate data transmitting the expressivity of the...
information retrieval, user modeling, knowledge capturing, human computer interaction 1.
How are Such Problems Created? (2008)
Divesh Srivastava, Human Factors
� Pervasive problem in large databases � Inconsistency with reality: 2 % of records obsolete in customer files in 1 month (deaths, name changes) [DWI02] � Pricing anomalies: UA tickets selling...
Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces General Terms (2008)
Tammara Combs Turner, Human Factors
We describe results from a survey of employees at Microsoft about how they manage personal and household scheduling. We saw a much greater use of digital calendars than we expected. Of our 621...
Stanley J. Rosenschein, Human Factors
In this paper, we describe the Quindi Meeting Companion, a personal software tool for documenting content-rich meetings. We examine the principal motivations for the system, key design decisions, and...
Anne Miller, Key Centre, Human Factors
A Work Domain Analysis involves the context independent representation of work domain resources as a field for action. However, formal knowledge may not represent all of the resources available to...
Sara H. Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma, Human Factors
The Internet is a living, breathing reflection of who we are, what we think, and how we feel. The pages that make up the Web form the book of our contemporary life and culture. They are the ongoing...
User Interface Systems Evaluation (2008)
The development of user interface systems has languished with the stability of desktop computing. Future systems, however, that are off-the-desktop, nomadic or physical in nature will involve new...
and Retrieval – Query formulation, search process. General Terms (2008)
This poster investigates a novel query suggestion technique that selects query refinements through a combination of many users’ post-query navigation patterns and the query logs of a large search...
Interaction Styles General Terms (2008)
At the Media Lab we are developing a resource called StoryNet, a very-large database of story scripts that can be used for commonsense reasoning by computers. This paper introduces ComicKit, an...
factors, software psychology (2008)
We consider a conversational recommender system based on examplecritiquing where some recommendations are suggestions aimed at stimulating preference expression to acquire an accurate preference...
interfaces. General Terms (2008)
Lilia Moshkina, Yoichiro Endo, Ronald C. Arkin, Human Factors
This paper describes a usability study designed to assess ease of use, user satisfaction, and performance of a mobile robot mission specification system. The software under consideration, MissionLab,...
Adriano Albertini, Roberto Brunelli, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro, Human Factors
The paper presents a first prototype of a handheld museum guide delivering contextualized information based on the recognition of drawing details selected by the user through the guide camera. The...
Helmut Prendinger, Human Factors
We propose an infotainment presentation system that relies on eye gaze as an intuitive and unobtrusive input modality. The system analyzes eye movements in real-time to infer users ’ attention,...
Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.4 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: (2008)
Earl Wagner, Henry Lieberman, General Terms, Human Factors
We demonstrate Woodstein, a software agent that tracks user interaction with e-commerce Web sites through a browser, and relates the browsing events to high-level models of complex, multi-step...
Richard J. Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Steven A. Wolfman, Human Factors
Digital inking systems are becoming increasingly popular across a variety of domains. In particular, many systems now allow instructors to write on digital surfaces in the classroom. Yet, our...
A SpeechWeb is a collection of hyperlinked applications, which are accessed remotely by speech browsers running on end-user devices. Links are activated through spoken commands. Despite the fact that...
Presentation General Terms (2008)
Ajay Chakravarthy, Human Factors
Nowadays a large and growing percentage of information is stored in various multimedia formats. In order for multimedia information to be efficiently utilised by users, it is very important to add...
In this paper we propose the use of 3D Virtual Worlds for the visualization of Electronic Institutions. We show how 3D representation helps to open Electronic Institutions to human users and support...
Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces, Proceedings (2008)
Ronald M. Baecker, Human Factors, Typography For, Benjamin B. Bederson, Larry Stead, James D. Hollan, ...
Education General Terms (2008)
Based on many years of teaching software engineering, I present a number of lessons I have learned over the years. I do so in the form of a series of myths, the reverse of which can be considered...
Social Issues General Terms (2008)
Lori Pollock, Kathleen Mccoy, Ra Carberry, Namratha Hundigopal, Xiaoxin You, Human Factors
This paper describes the design, implementation, and impact evaluation of of a summer program designed to attract high school girls to entering an information technology field for their college...
Extreme Programming (XP) brings the customer and development team together into a tight functional unit, while eliminating many of the process activities of more structured software development...
information retrieval, user modeling, knowledge capturing, human computer interaction 1.
H.5.4 [Hypertext/Hypermedia]: Architectures, Theory, Navigation, User Issues. General Terms (2008)
Stor y s p ace, a hy p er text wr i ti ng env i r onm ent, has been w i dely us ed for wri ti ng, read i ng, and res ear ch for near ly f i fteen year s. Th e ap p ear ance of a new im p lem entati...
How are Such Problems Created? (2008)
Divesh Srivastava (at, Human Factors
� Pervasive problem in large databases � Inconsistency with reality: 2 % of records obsolete in customer files in 1 month (deaths, name changes, etc) [DWI02] � Pricing anomalies: UA tickets...
Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces, Proceedings (2008)
Ronald M. Baecker, Human Factors, Typography For, Benjamin B. Bederson, Larry Stead, James D. Hollan, ...
Human Factors, Andrew S. Gordon
In this paper, we describe Fourth Frame Forums, an application that combines traditional four-frame comic strips with online webbased discussion forums. In this application, users are presented with...
and Retrieval]: Online Information Services – Web-based services. General Terms (2008)
Thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet search engine search box, users have come to depend on search engines both to find and refind information. However, re-finding behavior has not been...
and Retrieval – Query formulation, search process. General Terms (2008)
This poster investigates a novel query suggestion technique that selects query refinements through a combination of many users’ post-query navigation patterns and the query logs of a large search...
interfaces. General Terms (2008)
Lilia Moshkina, Yoichiro Endo, Ronald C. Arkin, Human Factors
This paper describes a usability study designed to assess ease of use, user satisfaction, and performance of a mobile robot mission specification system. The software under consideration, MissionLab,...
How are Such Problems Created? (2008)
Divesh Srivastava (at, Human Factors
� Pervasive problem in large databases � Inconsistency with reality: 2 % of records obsolete in customer files in 1 month (deaths, name changes, etc) [DWI02] � Pricing anomalies: UA tickets...
Increasing Quality of Conceptual Models: (2008)
Davor Svetinovic, Human Factors
Several researchers have recently indicated an urgent need for re-evaluation and validation of the various software engineering abstraction techniques, and object orientation in particular. This...
Federal Aviation Administration (2008)
Y Sollenberger, Ph. D, Human Factors, Team Atlantic City, Anton Koros Northrop
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for the...
Federal Aviation Administration NOTICE (2008)
Major Metropolitan Airspaces, Carolina M. Zingale, Ph. D, Human Factors, Team Atlantic City, Todd R. Truitt, ...
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for the...
Quanhua Lu, Human Factors, Telemedicine Heightened Consumer
ood pressure, medication, diabetic condition, diet, hygiene, and mental health status. . Two units: -- the base station unit used by the nurse and the home unit used by the patients. 8 HeartCare . A...
Design Failures, Higher-layer Security, Key Management, Human Factors
F38.62> . Restrict what the user can attempt to do. . Small number of assumptions/guarantees. . But: frequently a source of perennial problems (e.G., Gets()) 2 Systems . Structure. . Hierarchy. ....
synchronous interaction, theory and models. General Terms (2007)
This paper introduces the application Second Messenger, a tool for supporting face-to-face meetings and discussions. Second Messenger uses a speech-recognition engine as an input method and outputs...
We describe results from a preliminary investigation of the relationship between topic familiarity and information search behavior. Two types of information search behaviors are considered: reading...
Program Synthesis General Terms (2007)
Eric Schwarzkopf, Mathias Bauer, Dietmar Dengler, Human Factors
by example,
W. Lewis Johnson, Human Factors
Guidebots, or animated pedagogical agents, can enhance interactive learning environments by promoting deeper learning and improve the learner's subjective experience. Guidebots exploit a...
This paper describes a novel approach to human-robot interaction, in which a user modifies a robot’s environment to constrain its actions, rather than programming its controller. An HRI simulation...
John M. Daughtry, Robert St. Amant, Human Factors
This paper describes a drawing system that incorporates two novel interaction techniques based on analogies to physical tools. Power tools add limited autonomy in the form of rotators and movers for...
Stuart M. Shieber, Human Factors, Ellie Baker
We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on PDAs or cell phones or by disabled users) by taking advantage of the...
This paper describes a design tool, under development, that identifies efficient low-level action sequences in the user interface, accounting for the relationships between the physical properties of...
Thomas Rist, General Terms, Human Factors, Elisabeth André, Stephan Baldes
User interfaces of a broad range of applications are getting increasingly populated with life-like animated characters. The choice of domain, tasks, and conversational setting impose constraints on...
presentation, User interfaces, Screen design, Ergonomics. General Terms (2007)
Visual reputation and recommendation systems, information visualization, social navigation, emphasis techniques, scientific literature search.
ABSTRACT An environment for user interface softbots (2007)
Robert St. Amant, Ajay Dudani, Human Factors
A user interface softbot is a software agent that controls an interactive system through the graphical user interface, relying on visual information from the system rather than an application...
Stuart M. Shieber, Human Factors, Ellie Baker
We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on PDAs or cell phones or by disabled users) by taking advantage of the...
saitama-u.ac.jp With the increase in the number of senior citizens, there is a growing demand for human-friendly wheelchairs as mobility aids. Thus several intelligent wheelchairs have been proposed...
Applied Cognitive Psychology (2007)
David Leadbetter, Peter Lindsay, Key Centre, Human Factors, Andrew Hussey, Andrew Hussey, ...
reports are available via anonymous ftp, from svrc.it.uq.edu.au in the directory /pub/techreports. Abstracts and compressed postscript les are available via
European Organisation For The Safety Of (2007)
Air Navigation Eurocontrol, A Business, Human Factors, Change Management, Life-cycle Cost, Human Factors Investment
This document is, within the Human Resources Domain (HUM), one of the human factors modules dealing with human performance. This module suggests that human factors should be integrated throughout the...
Typical Web search engines are designed to run short queries against a huge collection of hyperlinked documents quickly and cheaply, and are often tuned for the types of queries people submit most...
Hypertext/Hypermedia – navigation, user issues. General Terms (2007)
Nor Aniza Abdullah, Human Factors
In this paper, we explore the differences between the Adaptive Hypermedia and IMS Simple Sequencing approaches. Both approaches provide learning material tailored for the learner’s current context....
WebDAV-based Hypertext Annotation and Trail System (2007)
Sunghun Kim Mark, Mark Slater, E. James Whitehead, Human Factors
We introduce a WebDAV-based Hypertext Annotation and Trail System (HATS). HATS provides annotation editing, deleting, searching, and sharing using server side WebDAV capabilities. It supports...
David A. Shamma, Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, Shannon Bradshaw, Jay Budzik, Human Factors
In this article, we explore a new role for the computer in art as a reflector of popular culture. Moving away from the static audiovisual installations of other artistic endeavors and from the...
©2007 Human Factors International, Inc. Table of Contents (2007)
Susan Weinschenk, Human Factors
www.humanfactors.com
Vicki Ahlstrom, Human Factors, Team Atlantic City
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for the...
A Human Factors Simulation of Required Navigation Performance Converging Approach (2007)
Pamela Della Rocco, Ph. D, Human Factors, Team Atlantic City
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for the...
Federal Aviation Administration NOTICE (2007)
Ulf Ahlstrom, Ph. D, Human Factors, Team Atlantic City, Thomas G. Dury, Thomas G. Dury, ...
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for the...
Federal Aviation Administration (2007)
Todd R. Truitt, Ph. D, Human Factors, Team Atlantic City, Robert Muldoon, Northrop Grumman, ...
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for the...
Students learn cs in different ways. insights from an empirical study (2006)
Anders Berglund, Human Factors
This empirical study demonstrates that students ’ learning of computer science takes place in qualitatively different ways. The results consists of categories, where each category describe a...
Personal TV Viewing by Using Live Chat as Metadata (2005)
Hisashi Miyamori, Satoshi Nakamura, K. Tanaka, H. [information Interfaces, Human Factors
programs with live chat information on the Web. It enables a new way of viewing TV content from different perspectives reflecting viewers' viewpoints.
Michael R. Hieb, Ph. D, Engineering Management, Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors, Michael R. Hieb
Affiliate Associate Professor. Technical Expert for the Army on C4I to M&S Interoperability. Architect
Vicki Ahlstrom, Human Factors, Team-atlantic City, Bonnie Kudrick, Titan Corporation, Vicki Ahlstrom, ...
This document is available to the public through the National Technical Information Service,
Final Report United Space Alliance (2004)
Isye Senior, Industrial Engineering, Human Factors, Terry Comer, Fawaad Haider, Hisham Khaki, ...
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Transportation Association of Canada (2004)
Alison Smiley, Human Factors, North Inc, Québec City Québec
Paper prepared for presentation at the
Automatic Extraction of Semantic Networks from Text using Leximancer (2003)
Andrew E. Smith, Key Centre, Human Factors
Leximancer is a software system for performing conceptual analysis of text data in a largely language independent manner. The system is modelled on Content Analysis and provides unsupervised and...
Automatic Extraction of Semantic Networks from Text using Leximancer (2003)
Andrew E. Smith, Key Centre, Human Factors
Leximancer is a software system for performing conceptual analysis of text data in a largely language independent manner. The system is modelled on Content Analysis and provides unsupervised and...
° Not platform-independent Java Applets (2001)
° Distance education ° Available any-time, any-place, any number of repetitions ° Learn and practice in spite of making errors • Development & Deployment Dynamics ° Short-term goal:...
Hans Larsen, Nijs Jan Duijm, Charlotte Olsson, Elin Jensen, Unep Centre, Human Factors, ...
Technology Scearios. The report includes summary statistics and lists of publications, committees and staff members. Risø-R-1230(EN)
Modelling and Hazard Identification in an Air-Traffic Control User-Interface (2000)
Hazard Identi Cation, Andrew Hussey, David Leadbetter, Peter Lindsay, Key Centre, Human Factors, ...
Growing use of computers in safety-critical systems increases the need for Human Computer Interfaces (HCIs) to be both smarter - to detect human errors - and better designed - to reduce likelihood of...
Wendy Macdonald, Owen Evans, Gerri Nolan, Liz Pratt, Centre For Ergonomics, Human Factors, ...
The project team gratefully acknowledges, most of all, the generous contributions of time and expertise from all participating companies and their employees, who are too numerous to list...
In December of 1998, the Chief of Research and Development (CRAD) and the R&D
Human Factors, Technology Group, Carl Myhill, Supervisor Dr. Peter Brooks
A large proportion of today’s software development is unsuccessful. One reason for this is thought to be lack of attention to the user. Maintaining a user-centred focus during software production...