In this position paper for the ACM CHI 2012 Workshop on "The 3rd Dimension of CHI (3DCHI): Touching and Designing 3D User Interfaces", we describe our vision on how the interaction with virtual 3D interfaces may benefit from integrating gaze input. On the one hand, 3D UIs can profit by diagnostic eye tracking studies on how users perceive presented content. On the other hand, the consideration ...

Within the EC funded research project GEMINI (Generic Environment for Multilingual Interactive Natural Interfaces) we aim at the development of a platform that assists the user to semi-automatically produce interactive multilingual and multimodal dialogue interfaces to databases. To demonstrate the platform’s efficiency two different applications were generated using this platform. Main feature...

While menu interfaces are ubiquitous in modern technology they are often tedious and frustrating. Current dialogue technology can straightforwardly implement menu structures but the effect can be even more tedious since the user is forced to use the natural and efficient modality of speech in a very unnatural way descending the menu structure one node at a time. GoDiS, an experimental dialogue ...

According to usability experts, the top user issue for Web sites is difficult navigation. We have been developing automated usability tools for several years, and here we describe a prototype service called InfoScentTM Bloodhound Simulator, a push-button navigation analysis system, which automatically analyzes the information cues on a Web site to produce a usability report. We further build up...

Ambient Intelligence and Affective Computing areas are working on trying to make interfaces more natural from the human side. Taking personal, device and system characteristics into account, adaptive interfaces might help to achieve a greater user satisfaction and it is expected the results can be enhanced when bearing user affectivity in mind. In this paper, an ontology that describes affectiv...

We present a dynamic control-flow analysis and state classifier for graphical user interfaces. Search engines, end-user programming interfaces, and automated testers exploit such information, but are challenged by clientside and serverside scripts obscuring it: our analysis succeeds on popular web applications that contain both. We further motivate such analyses. First, we introduce a new type ...

Many interfaces exist for locomotion in virtual reality, although they are rarely considered fully natural. Past research has found that using such interfaces places cognitive demands on the user, with unnatural actions and concurrent tasks competing for finite cognitive resources. Notably, using semi-natural interfaces leads to poor performance on concurrent tasks requiring spatial working mem...

Nowadays, information overload is becoming an ever-growing problem. Finding the exact information is quite difficult. The main problem is that information is not organized according to its natural structures. There is not a data model that can represent these semi-structured or unstructured data in a natural way. On the other hand, almost every information application exploits interactive inter...