The HCI community has long been accused of delivering ‘common sense’, ‘useless’ information, and to be ignorant of business needs. HCI experts are also criticized for failing to provide or apply theory-based techniques. This paper shows that the two goals may be incompatible. It discusses one case study in which HCI data intended for one purpose were inappropriately applied to support another. ...

The workshop Made for Sharing: HCI Stories of Transfer, Triumph & Tragedy focuses on collecting cases in which practitioners have used their HCI methods in new contexts. For analyzing the collected body of cases we propose to apply a framework inspired by the Diffusion of Innovations approach which focuses on what facilitates the adoption, reinvention and implementation of new practices in soci...

Semiotics is “the mathematics of the humanities” in the sense that it provides an abstract language covering a diversity of special sign-usages (language, pictures, movies, theatre, etc.). In this capacity, semiotics is helpful for bringing insights from older media to the task of interface design, and for defining the special characteristics of the computer medium. However, semiotics is not li...

We are investigating gender HCI issues in problemsolving software, using quantitative and qualitative empirical methods. Our research approach uses formative work to understand the existence and attributes of gender-relevant design features, based on which we then design and implement new features in our research prototype. Finally, we perform summative empirical work to evaluate effectiveness.

The use of metaphor has a prominent role in HCI, both as a device to help users understand unfamiliar technologies, and as a tool to guide the design process. Creators of new computerbased instruments face similar design challenges as those in HCI. In the course of creating a new piece for Mobile Phone Orchestra we propose the metaphor of a sound as a ball and explore the interactions and sound...

We have studied the characteristics of MOSFET degradation induced by hotcarriers. When the characteristics of drain current degradation (A/j) are applied to the stress time(t) dependence AIj oc t, the exponent n is clearly different under different bias conditions. We present a two-type interface-state model composed of deep-energy interface states and shallow-energy interface states which have...

The evaluation of educational software is of concern to two particular academic communities: HCI and educational technology. There is a danger that usability features are considered at the expense of educational issues (and the converse of this is of course equally true). This paper considers how the notion and practice of evaluation in the educational community differs from that in HCI and als...

This paper claims that the strategies applied in designing e-learning solutions tend to focus on how to proceed after the precondition, e.g., learners requirements, pedagogical choice, etc., have been decided upon. Investigating the HCI research field, we find that the methodological approaches focus on end-users and primarily address the phases succeeding the initial pre-analysis. The HCI appr...

This paper discusses the author’s interest in proving that it matters whether someone builds a new application using HCI principles. This is an important issue to discuss because many HCI professionals and researchers think that the conclusion is obvious i.e. that of course it matters and that we should build an application with an end user in mind and then test it with a subset of said users. ...

We review recent progress made in determining the pressure of hot QCD up to the first non-perturbative term in its weak-coupling expansion.