In many reservoirs, after water flooding, a large volume of oil is still left behind. Hot water injection is the most basic type of thermal recovery which increase recovery by improved sweep efficiency and thermal expansion of crude.In the present work, the effects of injection rate and the temperature of the injected water were surveyed by using core flooding apparatus. Water flooding was perf...

Musical instruments keep hobbyist musicians highly engaged for years. In this theoretical paper, we discuss qualities of musical instruments affording this long-term engagement, in the hopes that HCI developers will begin to design interfaces with these qualities. This will result in interfaces that users find more engaging in the long term. Such interfaces would be useful in many applications,...

Hand detection has many important applications in HCI, yet it is a challenging problem because the appearance of hands can vary greatly in images. In this paper, we propose a novel method for efficient pixel-level hand detection. Unlike previous method which assigns a binary label to every pixel independently, our method estimates a probability shape mask for a pixel using structured forests. T...

This research paper focuses on the relationship between flow experience and multimodal learning environments. Flow experience has been defined as the state in which an individual feels completely absorbed and fully engaged in an activity. This concentration and complete engagement can lead to optimal learning. Several scholars in the areas of distance learning [2] and game-based learning [3] hi...

Cameras are a useful source of input for many interactive applications, but computer vision programming requires specialized knowledge that is out of reach for many HCI practitioners. My thesis is that by using visual examples to train computer vision classifiers, and combining trained classifiers into graphs, people with minimal programming experience, and no specialized knowledge of computer ...

This position paper outlines previous work on design thinking and creativity methods in interaction design, followed by a proposal of topics for discussion at the workshop Innovation in HCI: What Can We Learn from Design Thinking. Author

Recently HCI researchers have taken an interest in the concept of cool and how it can be harnessed in the design process. This is due to cool’s potential positive impact on adoption and the wider user experience. In this paper we explore the concept of cool and the challenges faced in the study of cool in design. We highlight the lack of rigorous research and causal understanding of cool, the s...

Thee need of literacy intervention and of tools for deaf people is largely documented in the literature of deaf studies. This paper aims at eliciting the interests of HCI researchers and practitioners alike on the creation of more intelligent web tools for the literacy of deaf people. Our paper overviews several e-tools for the literacy of the deaf, and it assesses them according to the user ce...

There is an ongoing discussion in HCI on the need for new theories, methods and techniques to assist researchers and practitioners in both the design of better digital artifacts and effective evaluation of them. As part of this discussion we observe a recent trend where researchers from the IT domain present various definitions of ecologies, approaching the question, “What is a digital ecology?...