In this paper we inquire material qualities for tangible user interfaces and introduce the term “ephemeral user interface”. We present an example user interface that employs f...
Abstract. Since the demise of the Overnet network, the Kad network has become not only the most popular but also the only widely used peer-to-peer system based on a distributed has...
Thomas Locher, David Mysicka, Stefan Schmid, Roger...
Most research assumes that usability is understood similarly by users in different cultures, implying that the notion of usability, its aspects, and their interrelations are const...
We present a study of how householders personalize their domestic vacuuming robot, iRobot’s Roomba™. In particular, we build on Blom and Monk’s [3] theory of personalization...
Ja-Young Sung, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik I. Chris...
Eliciting user preferences for large datasets and creating rankings based on these preferences has many practical applications in community-based sites. This paper gives a new met...