Font-rendering technologies play a critical role in presenting clear and aesthetic fonts to enhance the experience of reading from computer screens. This article presents three studies investigating visual and psychological correlates of people’s preferences toward different onscreen text enhancements such as ClearType developed by Microsoft. Findings suggested that (a) people’s acuity and hue ...

The latest technology trends in personal mobile computing are towards integration of various technologies. The new generation PDAs ( Personal Digital Assistant) can not only be used as calculators and organizers, they also have color screens with high resolution, audio and video capabilities, and internet access capabilities via Wi-Fi and WiMax, enabling them to be used as mobile phones (smartp...

Although several medical technologies have been around since decades and are in the continuous process of development, some latest technologies are changing the way medicine would be practiced in the future. These technologies would allow medical practice from anywhere, any time and from any device. These include smart phones, Tablet PCs, Touch screens, digital ink, voice recognition, Electroni...

Interaction with digitally augmented urban spaces has increasingly relied upon Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) to achieve low-entry levels for the interaction and promote social encounters. In this paper, we discuss two interactive interventions we developed using NUIs for activating two very distinct urban spaces. Despite their highly different contexts and content strategies – one informationa...

In this paper we introduce and describe the phenomenon of videogame street art as a specific kind of street art. We consider its materiality and significance, and conceptualize it in the light of a double manifestation of play: the playful appropriation of the city by the artist and the fact that street art encapsulates the act of playing videogames in a visual form. Digital play spills out of ...

The smartphone revolution together with cost-efficient wireless access technologies has lately changed the landscape for smart home environments to a large extent. Moreover, large flat screens, new capturing devices, and large digital media libraries have also changed the way smart home environments are used. We present and evaluate an architecture for multimedia sharing in such environments. E...

Using the example of an electronic photo album, a novel user input method for digital appliances is introduced. Based on tilting and gesturing with the device, the Rock ’n’ Scroll input method is shown to be sufficient for scrolling, selection, and commanding an application without resorting to buttons, touch screens, spoken commands or other input methods. User experiments with a prototype sys...

As the practices of higher education shift online, the work of learners, teachers and scholars increasingly takes place within the domain of the image. The ‘digital turn’ we are experiencing, both in higher education and in the wider culture, accompanies an ‘iconic turn’ in which the logic of the image as it emerges on our screens has a growing influence over our modes of meaning-making (Kress ...

In the era of distributed digital media, technology is moving to the background and interoperability between devices increases. The handles for users to explore, make and break connections between devices seem to disappear in overly complex menu structures displayed on small screens. Two prototypes have been developed that introduce a tangible approach towards exploring, making and breaking con...

Along with high-resolution color screens, mega-pixel cameras and other advances in hardware, today’s mobile handsets are equipped with powerful software, enabling rich user interfaces and sophisticated features and applications. Many features have been tightly integrated with the embedded software on mobile handsets, including: browsers, multimedia messaging (MMS) and instant messaging clients,...