a Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 27-29, A-1040 Vienna, Austria A.F.Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute, 26 Polytechnicheskaya Str., 194021 St.-Petersburg, Russia Christian Doppler Laboratory for Reliability Issues in Microelectronics at IUE, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 27-29, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Austriamicrosystems AG, Unterpremstätten, Austria e Institute für Theoretische ...

Theoretical constructs are the foundational building blocks of theories and are utilized as a way of understanding and explaining phenomena. The use of theory and theoretical constructs to study health information technologies have varied based on research communities, research goals, and types of technology. Within the HCI community, there has been a long history of using theoretical construct...

We present an extension of Kansei mediated communication in the field of entertainment. We propose to do so by implementing Cultural Computing concept and enriching it with Kansei Mediated Interaction. We present some inspiration for our approach in terms of culture and then discuss them. We relate our work to the Western and to the Eastern world. Thus we use cultural examples from England, Fra...

Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, this paper addresses how narrative research and portraiture methods originating from, and commonly used in social sciences can be beneficial for HCI and design research communities. Narrative research takes stories as a basis for data collection and analysis, while portraiture can be used to create written narratives about interview participants. Draw...

Distributed display environments cover a wide range of display setups and a wide variety of usage and activity patterns. This position paper describes our research into dispersed displays, a new class of distributed display environment which is characterized by the spatial distribution of individual displays across a large physical area. This effort is part of and supported by the e-Campus Init...

Die Entwicklung der Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle ist keine Modeerscheinung der letzten Jahre. Bereits mit der Verfügbarkeit der ersten (interaktiven) Computersysteme wurde die Frage nach effektiven Benutzungsschnittstellen gestellt. Die Erfolge der Forschung auf diesem Gebiet, zu der die graphische Datenverarbeitung einen großen Beitrag geleistet hat, sind unbestritten und haben zu der großen ...

Blogging can be used to enhance education by encouraging reflective practice. We present a study in which a final year HCI course was constructed around regular blogging activity. We discuss the role of blogs in providing a social mechanism for the student body and in acting as a conduit between classroom and practical examples. We analyze the blogs from a quantitative and qualitative perspecti...

150 words) The evolution of HCI education does not take place in a vacuum, nor is it only controlled by the academics and practitioners close to its core. In this paper we reflect on the causes of change in the HCI curriculum and consider what has been lost and found during these changes. Taking inspiration from both the theme of the workshop and the cultural richness of the workshop location w...

The paper explores the effectiveness of persona-based design methods in HCI education. We describe the experiences of our students in learning, practicing, and using personas in a number of design contexts. From these experiences, we identify common patterns of use and misuse and characterize challenges in incorporating and using personas in the classroom. We conclude with advice on how to effe...

This SIG will facilitate a debate concerning how best to support the development of indigenous HCI in developing countries, both as part of education and training systems and within industrial practice.