Although tabular displays are an efficient and effective means to display information there are a number of problems in displaying tables in mobile devices. Small, hand-held mobile devices lack screen space, and this can be a serious handicap in their efficient use (Brewster, Leplatre and Crease, 1998). If the device must be small and the screen must fit the device, text will necessarily be sma...

The performance of a commercially available liquid crystal TV display was characterized in terms of its modulation depth. Measurements of screen transmittance and modulation depth, as a function of signal level, showed that the primary limitations of the device as a spatial light modulator were due to the nature of the video scan format and the display drive electronics. The resolution of the d...

In this paper we present the BioCrystal – a biofeedback device that uses physiological data to evaluate user’s affective states in real-time and signals the states via an ambient display. We evaluated the BioCrystal during a 2week, in situ multi-method study during which ten users collected over 115 hours of usable data. Users’ comments suggested high utility of such a biofeedback device for se...

In this paper, we present the system that aids people in wearing makeup easily and make the process enjoyable. The proposed system is the “Smart Makeup Mirror” device, which is an electronic dressing table that facilitates the process of makeup application. In this system, we place a high-resolution camera on top of a computer display. We developed some functions such as “Automatic zoom to a sp...

In this paper, we present the basic design principles and architecture of a dialogue system for scheduling appointments. This mixed-initiative dialogue system integrates an automatic speaker-independent speech recognition engine for continuously spoken German, a speech synthesizer and a scheduler database application to build up a scheduler that is purely driven by natural continuous speech and...