People and Computers XXII
Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Proceedings of HCI 2008
The 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference
Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

1 - 5 September 2008

Follow the appropriate links below to access the papers in this session.

Short Papers
Student Papers
Posters
Panels
Laboratory and Organisation Overviews
Workshops
Tutorials
HCI Practice Day
Doctoral Consortium

Short Papers

Enabling Storytelling by Aphasics in an Augmented Home Environment
Abdullah Al Mahmud, Dzmitry Aliakseyeu & Jean-Bernard Martens

EZ Phone: Persuading Mobile Users to Conserve Energy
Abdullah Al Mahmud, Suleman Shahid, James F. Juola & Boris de Ruyter

Walk 2 Win: Towards Designing a Mobile Game for Elderly's Social Engagement
Omar Mubin, Suleman Shadid & Abdullah Al Mahmud

An Eye Tracking Study of How Font Size and Type Influence Online Reading
David Beymer, Daniel Russell & Peter Orton

The SenseCam as a Tool for Task Observation
Daragh Byrne, Aiden R. Doherty, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Sanna Kumpulainen & Kalervo Järvelin

Understanding Behaviors and Needs for Home Videos
Marco Campanella & Jettie Hoonhout

SMART: a SysteM of Augmented Reality for Teaching 2nd Grade Students
Rubina Freitas & Pedro Campos

Eunomia: Toward a Framework for Multi-touch Information Displays in Public Spaces
Tom Cuypers, Jan Schneider, Johannes Taelman, Kris Luyten & Philippe Bekaert

Distributed Cognition and Mobile Healthcare Work
Joseph McKnight & Gavin Doherty

Future Mobile Health Systems: Designing Personal Mobile Applications to Assist Self Diagnosis
Dina Ahmad, Andreas Komninos & Lynne Baillie

Conveying Availability and Capability to Communicate in Naturalistic Interaction
Victoria Land, Mary Lumkin & David Frohlich

Dance.Draw: Exquisite Interaction
Celine Latulipe & Sybil Huskey

Ubiquitous Healthcare: Do we want it?
Linda Little & Pam Briggs

A Comparison of the Impact of Avoidance Cues in Hazard Avoidance During Evaluation of Text Entry
Joanna Lumsden & Patrick Drost

Understanding Children's Contributions during Informant Design
Emanuela Mazzone, Janet Read & Russell Beale

Comparing Interaction Strategies for Constructing Diagrams in an Audio-only Interface
Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns & Tony Stockman

Sharing Vocabularies: Tag Usage in CiteULike
Sylvie Noël & Russell Beale

Office Activity Recognition using Hand Posture Cues
Brandon Paulson & Tracy Hammond

What You See is What You Worry About: Errors - Real and Imagined
Janet C. Read

Struggling with Gift-Giving Obligations: When Mobile Messages are too Laborious to Reciprocate
Antti Salovaara

Pixaura: Supporting Tentative Decision Making when Selecting and Sharing Digital Photos
Lalatendu Satpathy, Saara Kamppari, Bridget Lewis, Ajay Prasad, Yong Woo Rhee, Benjamin Elgart & Steven Drucker

A Comparison of Motion and Keypad Interaction for Fine Manipulation on Mobile Devices
Lasse Schwarten, Benjamin Walther-Franks. Christoph Grimmer & Sebastian Feige

In Search of Tangible Magic
Diana Xu, Janet C. Read & Robert Sheehan

Why an Emergency Alert System isn't Adopted: The Impact of Socio-Technical Context
Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu & Jennifer J. Preece

Student Papers

Efficiency of Multimodal Metaphors in the Presentation of Learning Information
Marwan Alseid & Dimitris Rigas

Supporting Scenario Building in Product Design
Irene Anggreeni & Mascha van der Voort

News Not Noise: Socially Aware Information Filtering
Jonathan Melhuish & Russell Beale

Bodily Awareness: An Exploration in Critical Design
Daniel Brynolf, Vanessa Carpenter, Mads Hobye & Henrik Svarrer Larsen

Usability Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Multimodal Interaction
Jaeseung Chang & Marie-Luce Bourguet

PDP - Pen Driven Programming
Jonathan Frye & Björn Franke

Seam Carving for Enhancing Image Usability on Mobiles
Nicholas Hill & Parisa Eslambolchilar

Can Technology-rich Spaces Support Multiple Uses?
Nadia Pantidi, Hugh Robinson & Yvonne Rogers

Representing Location in Location-based Social Awareness Systems
Michael Voong & Russell Beale

Posters

Exploring Multimodal Robotic Interaction through Storytelling for Aphasics
Omar Mubin & Abdullah Al Mahmud

Interactive Whiteboards in the Living Room? - Asking Children about their Technologies
Matthew Horton & Janet C. Read

Experiences in Designing Personal Health Assistants for the Impending Aged Generation
Dina Ahmad, Andreas Komninos & Lynne Baillie

Design Approach for Touch Based User Interfaces
Hyun-Chul Lee & Jung-Woon Lee

Are Concepts Useful for Organizing Search Results?
P.Y. Ko, R. W. P. Luk, E. K. S. Ho, F. L Chung & D. L. Lee

Involvement in Video Material: Concept Mapping
Nele Van den Ende, Jettie Hoonhout & Lydia Meesters

Panels

Seeding Without Leading: Making Space for Participant Contribution in Design Elicitation Techniques
Ann Light, Pam Briggs & Karen Martin

HCI: Whose Job is it Anyway?
Tom Stewart

Laboratory and Organisation Overviews

The Creativity and Cognition Studios
Ernest Edmonds

The HCI Lab at UNC Charlotte
Celine Latulipe & Heather Richter Lipford

UsaLab: the Experience of a Usability Lab from the Mexican Perspective
Mario A. Moreno Rocha & Dayfel Hernández Martinez

SArt Project: Research in the Intersection between Software and Art
Anna Trifonova & Letizia Jaccheri

Workshops

E-health
Elizabeth Sillence, Linda Little & Pam Briggs

Creating Creative Processes: A Workshop Demonstrating a Methodological Approach for Subjects Between the Sciences and the Arts
Carola Boehm

Critical Issues in Interaction Design
Mark Blythe, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell & Alan Blackwell

HCI for Technology Enhanced Learning
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Charles van der Mast, Annette Payne & Joshua Underwood

Evaluation Instruments for Creativity Support Tools
Celine Latulipe & Michael Terry

Emotion in HCI - Designing for People
Christian Peter, Elizabeth Crane, Marc Fabri, Harry Agius & Lesley Axelrod

Workshop HCI for Medicine and Health Care (HCI4MED)
Andreas Holzinger, Harold Thimbleby & Russell Beale

HCI and the Older Population
Joy Goodman-Deane, Suzette Keith & Gill Whitney

First International Workshop on using Ontologies in Interactive Systems, ONTORACT'08
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Saturnino Luz & Masood Masoodian

Innovations in Measuring Accessibility: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Helen Petrie, Chris Power, Ray Adams, Faustina Hwang, Gerhard Weber, Jenny Darzentas & Carlos A. Velasco

Aesthetics, Digital Technology and Collaboration
Tommaso Colombino, Antonietta Grasso, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill & John Bowers

Designing for People who do not Read Easily
Caroline Jarrett, Katie Grant, William Wong,  Neesha Kodagoda & Kathryn Summers

The Challenges Faced by Academia Preparing Students for Industry: What We Teach and What We Do
Lidia Oshlyansky, Paul Cairns, Angela Sasse & Chandra Harrison

Evaluating Player Experiences in Location Aware Games
Rod McCall, Anne-Kathrin Braun & Barbara Maria Grüter

HCI and the Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Services
Peter J. Wild

Whole Body Interaction 2
David England

Tutorials

Low Cost Prototyping: Part 1, or How to Produce Better Ideas Faster by Getting User Reactions Early and Often
Stephen Brown & Andreas Holzinger

Using Personas Effectively
Peter Bagnall

Low Cost Prototyping: Part 2, or How to Apply the Thinking-Aloud Method Efficiently
Andreas Holzinger & Stephen Brown

Provoking Creative Design: Making it Scale
Neil Maiden & Sara Jones

Research Methods for HCI
Anna L. Cox, Paul Cairns, Harold Thimbleby & Natalie Webb

HCI Practice Day

Are you Searching for Ways to Find Information?
Colin Bird

Label Placement in Forms - What's Best?
Caroline Jarrett

Mobile LifeDiaryTM : True Life Management Service
Youngho Rhee, Banghun Chun & Eun Jung Lee

Exploring the Impulsion and Vibration Effects of Tactile Patterns
Muhammad Tahir, Gilles Bailly & Eric Lecolinet

User Test of Soccer Highlights Application
Lu Wang, Pedro Fonseca & Bas Zoetekouw

Doctoral Consortium

Helping Users Create and Remember More Secure Text Passwords
Alain Forget

MECE Method For Categorising Typing Errors
Akiyo Kano

Determining Value in Informant Design with Children
Emanuela Mazzone

Facilitating and Measuring Older People's Creative Engagement in a User Centred Design Process
Helena Sustar

Human-Centric Framework for Perceptually Adaptive Interfaces
Priyamvada Tripathi

Mobile Location-based Awareness and Connectedness
Michael Voong

Motivation for Adopting Emergency Response Technology in Community Settings
Philip Fei Wu