Besides the obvious advantage of mobility, wearable computing o ers intimacy with the user for augmented realities. A model of the user is as important as a model of the physical world for creating a seamless, unobtrusive interface while avoiding \information overload." This paper summarizes some of the current projects at the MIT Media Laboratory that explore the space of user and physical env...

The 3D Tractus (Latin for drawing, space and movement) is a simple and inexpensive physical interface for intuitive and direct exploration, manipulation and inputting of three-dimensional (3D) data. The interface is a straightforward evolution of the non-computerized drawing board, preserving the drawing board physical spatial affordances and enhancing it by allowing the interactive planar surf...

-This paper introduces an empirical study to investigate the use of multimodal metaphors in e-learning application in particular within the area of note-taking. The aim of the study is to measure and compare the level of usability of these metaphors. In order to carry out this comparative investigation, two experimental interfaces were built and performed by forty users. In the first interface ...

Unipept (http://unipept.ugent.be) is a web application that offers a user-friendly way to explore the biodiversity of complex metaproteome samples by providing interactive visualizations. In this article, the updates and changes to Unipept since its initial release are presented. This includes the addition of interactive sunburst and treeview visualizations to the multipeptide analysis, the fou...

UNLABELLED wEMBOSS provides a web environment from which the user can access EMBOSS in a user-friendly way. wEMBOSS supplies each user with space and tools to organize and review his or her work. AVAILABILITY wEMBOSS can be downloaded at http://www.wemboss.org CONTACT [email protected].

The split attention problem and its implications for the design of e-Learning material have been subject to a large number of empirical studies. How results of these studies can be applied to the design of web lecture interfaces is, however, still an issue of debate. Findings are at first glance contradictory and it seems that it is impossible to establish a general guideline. This paper analys...

The Demonstrational Interfaces Project at CMU has been investigating various aspects of demonstrational interfaces for the last eight years. During this time, we have created six interactive software building tools that use demonstrational techniques, as well as an architecture to support demonstrational programming in general. In addition, we have created a demonstrational Visual Shell (iconic...

To elaborate, the reality we evolved for was hunter-gatherer culture. This implies certain powerful abilities, but they may not be manifest in an arbitrarily selected current real task. Manually controlling a glass and steel box moving in a crowd of similar boxes at 70 mph without getting killed is a remarkable skill that most of us can perform pretty well, But this does not mean that it is "na...

Testing and verification of the interface between software components are particularly important due to the large number of complex interactions, which requires the traditional modeling languages to overcome the existing shortcomings in the aspects of temporal information description and software testing input controlling. This paper presents the real-time extended interface automata (RTEIA) wh...

Sensor networks are currently difficult to program and maintain. To simplify programming we present an interface for programming sensor networks based on the concept of spreadsheets. Our interface is explicitly designed to handle habitat monitoring and animal tracking scenarios, which we believe constitute a large portion of sensor network applications. Our approach is simple enough so that sci...