This paper attempts to determine whether conditions amenable to successful selective interventions to capture cross-industry externalities are likely to be fulfilled in practice. Three criteria are proposed for good candidates for industrial promotion: that they have strong interindustry links to the rest of the economy, that they lead the rest of the economy in a causal sense, and that they be...

In this paper, we describe an undergraduate foundational course on design methodology, in which strong emphasis is given on the philosophical questioning on method, methodology and, more generally, on designing itself. The course approach and structure are accounted in short steps, as a preliminary case presented for further discussions in the HCI educators community.

Services are considered to be one of the key growth areas within local and global economies. Services and Service Design are emerging, crossing, and in some cases redefining disciplinary boundaries. Approaches to Service design have emerged that share HCI commitment to working with and for people albeit in the development of useful services, rather than IT artefacts. However there has been litt...

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...

As CMOS scaling continues, the traditional DC device-level hot-carrier reliability criteria becomes difficult to meet for newer generations of technology. In order to satisfy hot-carrier reliability requirements by using AC circuit-level criteria, issues of AC device degradation under circuit operation and impact of device degradation on circuit performance need to be examined. In order to sati...

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...