Doctoral Consortium
The following have been confirmed. They will take place in Room 8W 2.13 (AV).
A practice based investigation into the integration of digital technologies within contemporary jewellery
Jayne Wallace, UK
Practice driven research using the methods and perspective of a contemporary jeweller, concerned with enhancing intimate emotional communication between individuals through the conception, design and use of digital jewellery objects.
A Study of Familiarity
Guy Van de Walle, UK
Empirically-based, this research investigates the relevancy of Heidegger and Zhuang-zi's analyses of familiarity and the familiarisation process and the need to overcome the opposition subject-object to understand the relation human-computer.
Adaptive decision making in menu search: the role of interdependence and past experience on link selection
Duncan Brumby, UK
Whether people choose to assess a label on a web page is dependent on the relevance of all other items so far assessed, not just the best so far.
Computer support for a person¹s cognitive map in a navigational domain
Judy Wilson, UK
Researching the potential for technological support of human cognitive mapping facilities in a navigational setting. Initially analysing the potential for conflict and resulting dilemmas when using current supporting artefacts.
Designing user-friendly search engine interfaces for the world wide web
Anne Aula, Finland
Describes research that aims at understanding information search behavior f different user groups using web search engines. Additionally, describes user interface solutions for helping users in information search.
Emotional access: user preferences for emotional interaction in computing
Lesley Axelrod, UK
Multi-modal systems are developing to recognise human emotions, but are still only prototypes. User behaviour and user preferences with emotion recognition systems can be analysed using Wizard of Oz techniques.
Empirical studies on websites: user preferences, attractiveness and memorability
Murni Mahmud, UK
Attractive design features on websites can draw users' attention, motivate and persuade them to buy. This research explores on how to develop a set of heuristics for designing attractive websites.
Improving usability of e-commerce sites by tracking eye movements
Katerina Tzanidou, UK
Summary: We are applying Eye tracking as a complementary usability evaluation technique for developing guidelines for the design of E-Commerce sites. Eye Tracking provides insight into users’ cognitive processes, and their strategies of visual attention and searching.
Multitasking in a Mobile Context
Stacey Nagata, Netherlands
Handheld Internet computing requires user interaction design for multitasking. Investigating user anticipation and origin of interruptions suggested that mediating interruptions and directing attention could support user web performance on a handheld.
Towards a localised experience of technology: a proposal to enhance interaction design for ubiquitous computing systems
Luigina Ciolfi, Ireland
Summary: My current PhD research is focusing on the enhancement of the ID process for the design and development of ubiquitous technologies. This contribution is aiming to extend the existing set of concerns related to the design of spatially distributed systems by means of the integration of aspects of human interaction and experience within space and place into the design process.
Using interaction style to develop user interfaces for multiple devices
Steve Gilroy, UK
Summary: This paper proposes interaction style as an abstraction to aid implementation of user interfaces across devices with differing interface characteristics. A prototype system, SIS that utilises style abstractions is presented.
Human-system interaction in critical response systems
Jared Hayes, NZ
Discussed in this paper is proposed work, which has the overall goal of developing display designs that complement the decision-making processes of ambulance dispatchers.
