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In this paper we present Pocket Bee, a multi-modal diary tool that allows researchers to remotely collect rich and in-depth data in the field. Based on the Android smart phone platform, we especially focused on an easy to use user interface. We introduce the notion of core questions that serve as cognitive triggers for pre-defined events. Multiple modalities allow participants to compose notes in the most appropriate and convenient way. Instant network synchronization allows researchers to view and analyze the data on-the-fly while also being able to create new tasks or questionnaires during an ongoing study. These can also be linked to certain trigger events, such as time and date. Thereby, Pocket Bee supports diary and Experience Sampling (ESM) studies. The system was developed in a user-centered design process and its potential value is described in a scenario of use illustrating an upcoming study.

We introduce our view of the relation between symbolic gestures and manipulations in multi-touch Natural User Interfaces (NUI). We identify manipulations not gestures as the key to truly natural interfaces. Therefore we suggest that future NUI research should be more focused on designing visual workspaces and model-world interfaces that are especially appropriate for multi-touch manipulations.

In this paper we present our approach to support artifact-mediated collaboration in interaction design. We argue that the extensive number and the diversity of artifacts created and reflected upon during collaborative design activities as well as transitions between physical and digital representations impose both a challenge and opportunity for supporting interaction design practice. The design principles for our experimental tool that we introduce within this paper are based on a cross-device spatial workspace synchronized by a shared design artifact repository within a computation-augmented design studio setting.

In this paper we argue that the extensive number of artifacts created during design processes as well as transitions between physical and digital tools impose both a challenge and opportunity for artifact-mediated collaboration techniques. We present our approach which is based on a cross-device spatial workspace within a computation-augmented design studio setting.

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In this paper we report our findings from an exploratory design study using a combination of an interactive tabletop and digital pen & paper technology during a full-day creativity workshop with creative professionals. We describe the applied creativity technique, the system design and the employed interaction techniques. The preliminary results of our study show that this combination of interaction modalities introduces a rich design space for creativity support systems and informal design tools.

While touch interaction with tabletops is now widely accepted as a very natural and intuitive form of input, only little research has been carried out to understand whether and how it might interfere with our natural ways of gestural communication. This poster presents a study that aims at understanding the importance of touching physical and virtual artifacts during discussion or collaboration around a table. Furthermore, it focuses on how users compensate for conflicts between non-interactivity and interactivity created by unintended touch interaction when using a multi-touch enabled tabletop. In our study, we asked participants to explain illustrations of technical or physical mechanisms, such as the workings of an airplane wing. We observed whether and how they used gestures to do so on a touch sensitive Microsoft Surface tabletop and on a sheet of paper. Our results suggest that touching is an essential part of such an activity and that the compensation strategies people adapt to avoid conflicts may reduce precision of communication and increase the physical strain on the user.

This paper introduces a touch-sensitive two-dimensional scatter plot visualization, to explore and analyze movie data. The design focuses on the ability to work co-located with several users. These are able to create several focus regions through distortion techniques triggered by multi touch gestures. Furthermore, the introduced visualization is an example how promising concepts from InfoVis research can be transferred onto multi touch tables in order to offer more natural interaction.

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Cross-display interaction is a challenge for HCI researchers, because a naive adaptation of mechanisms in single-display workspaces might be inappropriate for teamwork in multi-user multi-display environments. In this paper, we identify a set of primitive cross-display interaction tasks, which, so far, have not been addressed in the literature. Additionally, we present our ideas to design a prototype that incorporates the identified primitive tasks, using an iPhone as a mobile input device with an integrated display.

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dc.contributor.author: Kehr, Flavius; Oortmann, Holger

This paper presents an inter-domain context-of-use analysis which addresses the challenge posed by the constantly increasing complexity of the human-computer interface in the work environment of control room operators. The data gathered is taken as a basis to propose new ways of optimizing the operators' work environment as a “holistic workspace”. New concepts are introduced which give equal consideration to the design levels of interaction, social communication, workflow support and physical surroundings.

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dc.contributor.author: Söter, Andrea; Bohrer, Lorenz

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In this paper we describe a system design for supporting creative group activities using distributed displays and multimodal interaction. We describe the rationale behind our approach and proposed interaction techniques for supporting collaborative sketching. Our goal is to understand how the interface metaphor, display space and interaction modalities may influence exploration and communication in collaborative settings.

In the VAST Challenge 2009 suspicious behavior had to be detected applying visual analytics to heterogeneous data, such as network traffic, social network enriched with geo-spatial attributes, and finally video surveillance data. This paper describes some of the awarded parts from our solution entry.

In this paper we present our experiences with longitudinal study designs for pointing device evaluation. In this domain, analyzing learning is currently the main reason for applying longitudinal designs. We will shortly discuss related research questions and outline two case studies in which we used different approaches to address this issue.

In this paper we provide a threefold contribution to the Surface Computing (SC) community. Firstly, we will discuss frameworks such as Reality-based Interaction which provide a deeper theoretical understanding of SC. Secondly, we will introduce our ZOIL user interface paradigm for SC on mobile, tabletop or wall-sized devices. Thirdly, we will describe our two software tools Squidy and ZOIL UI Framework which have supported and facilitated our iterative design of SC prototypes.

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Previous studies have argued for the use of gaze-assisted pointing techniques (MAGIC) in improving human-computer interaction. Here, we present experimental findings that were drawn from human performance of two tasks on a wall-sized display. Our results show that a crude adoption of MAGIC across a range of complex tasks does not increase pointing performance. More importantly, a detailed analysis of user behavior revealed several issues that were previously ignored (such as, interference of corrective saccades, increased decision time due to variability of precision, errors due to eye-hand asynchrony, and interference with search behavior) which should influence the development of gaze-assisted technology.

In this paper we present our experiences with longitudinal study designs for input device evaluation. In this domain, analyzing learning is currently the main reason for applying longitudinal designs. We will shortly discuss related research questions and outline two case studies in which we used different approaches to address this issue. Finally, we will point out future research tasks in the context of longitudinal evaluation methods.

This research investigates novel methods and techniques along with tool support that result from a conceptual blend of human-computer interaction with design practice. Using blending theory with material anchors as a theoretical framework, we frame both input spaces and explore emerging structures within technical, cognitive, and social aspects. Based on our results, we will describe a framework of the emerging structures and will design and evaluate tool support within a spatial, studio-like workspace to support collaborative creativity in interaction design.