Much current user experience literature in HCI presumes that experience can and should be actively controlled by HCI practitioners and passively received by users. In this paper, we argue, instead, that users are actively involved in constructing their experiences through a process of interpretation. As a consequence, experience is co-constructed between users, designers, and systems. To design...

This paper argues that diversity in HCI is legitimate, and indeed a source of richness. The diversity is directly analogous to the diversity in ethics, a field that has had millenia to develop and mature. This paper then addresses not HCI in society but, more specifically, the functioning and purpose of the HCI community as an ethically cohesive society. The paper exhibits some current problems...

Emotions play an important role in human-computer interaction (HCI). Central to the design of some future computer systems are the questions of how emotions can be specified, expressed, and accounted for by machines. Drawing on social psychology research, a two-factor model for emotion in HCI is proposed. This model was tested with a laboratory study of emotions in HCI. A project is currently u...

Among persistent issues in HCI are its separation from the other disciplines involved in the construction of Information Systems, any coherently extensive methodology and straight forward techniques for clustering interface elements for best effect. An approach to HCI which encompasses the full context of use (rather than just of usage) and entails more traditional SA&D within a single framewor...

Patterns are widely used in several domains and are rapidly growing in numbers as an effective way of communicating knowledge between designers (Erickson, 2000). Currently, there are hundreds of HCI (human-computer interaction) patterns that are published in books and on the Internet (HCI Patterns, 2003). The sheer number of HCI patterns and the lack of a delivery system can confuse and overwhe...

The intention of this paper is to provide an overview on the subject of Human-Computer Interaction. The overview includes the basic definitions and terminology, a survey of existing technologies and recent advances in the field, common architectures used in the design of HCI systems which includes unimodal and multimodal configurations, and finally the applications of HCI. This paper also offer...

Although users have been interacting with computer and video games for decades, published work on gaming in the literature of human-computer interaction (HCI) has been limited until recently. Despite this lack of research, the computer games industry has become one of the most lucrative technological and media industries, raising questions about whether the HCI community really has anything to ...

Enhancing user experience (UX) in interactive systems requires effective human-computer interaction (HCI). The relationship between people and computers has grown significance as technology progresses, having an impact on many areas of our life. main ideas tactics used HCI to enhance the are examined this abstract. Understanding capabilities constraints both humans forms basis HCI. researchers ...

Patterns are widely used in several domains and are rapidly growing in numbers as an effective way of communicating knowledge between designers (Erickson, 2000). Currently, there are hundreds of HCI (human-computer interaction) patterns that are published in books and on the Internet (HCI Patterns, 2003). The sheer number of HCI patterns and the lack of a delivery system can confuse and overwhe...

In this paper, we describe the experience of starting the first HCI master in Spanish language for the wide Spanish speaking context held in the University of Lleida (Catalonia). It combines the semi-distance educational paradigm with the Project-Based Learning educational methodology. The paper also describes how this first experience has reached from previous HCI teaching experiences and how ...