Analysis of Information Utilization (AIU) is a method for describing and analyzing how information entities identified in information analysis are being used in the work situation. AIU aims at complementing existing methods for user interface design, by identifying additional requirements for human-computer interaction. The method focuses on aspects of computer supported work, related to cognit...

In this paper we present the concept of inferred contextual user profiles (CUPs) which extends the traditional user profile definition by describing the user in a given situation, or context. The approach is evaluated in the scope of movie recommendation. In our evaluation, we infer two CUPs for each user, and use only one of the profiles, instead of the full user profile for recommending movie...

Tangible interfaces offer natural means of human computer interaction and have already been shown to simplify existing computerized applications and offer solutions for tasks that were considered to be “out of the scope” of human-computer interaction. We are currently perusing new applications for 3D geometry defining tangible interfaces. In this paper we attempt to provide the reader with intr...

The brain – computer interface (BCI) provides a communicational channel between human and machine. Most of these systems are based on brain activities. Brain Computer-Interfacing is a methodology that provides a way for communication with the outside environment using the brain thoughts. The success of this methodology depends on the selection of methods to process the brain signals in each pha...

There is a growing need for robot control interfaces that allow a single user to effectively control a large number of mostly-autonomous robots. The challenges in controlling such a collection of robots are very similar to the challenges of controlling characters in some genres of video games. In this paper, we argue that interfaces based on elements from computer video games are effective tool...

We present here "Just Another Tool for Online Studies" (JATOS): an open source, cross-platform web application with a graphical user interface (GUI) that greatly simplifies setting up and communicating with a web server to host online studies that are written in JavaScript. JATOS is easy to install in all three major platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), and seamlessly pairs with ...

Robot teleoperation systems face a common set of challenges including latency, low-dimensional user commands, and asymmetric control inputs. User control with BrainComputer Interfaces (BCIs) exacerbates these problems through especially noisy and erratic low-dimensional motion commands due to the difficulty in decoding neural activity. We introduce a general framework to address these challenge...

The belief that humans will be able to interact with computers in conversational speech has long been a favorite subject in science fiction. This reflects the persistent belief that spoken dialogue would be the most natural and powerful user interface to computers. With recent improvements in computer technology and in speech and language processing, such systems are starting to appear feasible...

The most important aspect of modern interactive computer systems is the level of support they provide for the underlying human activity. This level of support is encompassed in the user interface with which the user interacts with the system. User interface usability is an important factor but is often considered only in terms of the ease of use of the user interface. In this paper, a new frame...

The human-computer interface is a crucial element in the design of the next generation of Geographic Information Systems (GISs). We discuss the user interface design process by separating the formalization of the problem domain (identifying the objects a user manipulates, and their pertinent operations) from its visualization (describing human-computer interaction techniques such as windows and...