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24 April 2006 16:30 - 18:00 alt.chi Design is Fun and People are Great Designing the Reactive Playground: Benefits and Drawbacks of Adding Digital Technology to Outdoor Play Environments Explores the benefits and drawbacks of integrating digital technologies into outdoor playgrounds. Presents new prototypes, a participatory design process, and field observations. Frames future HCI work on computationally enhanced playgrounds. Susanne Seitinger Tokyo Youth at Leisure: Towards the Design of Media to Support Planning and Engaging in Leisure Activities A large project explored leisure practices and resources--including mobile phones and other media--of Tokyo young adults. Findings will help inform the design of future leisure support technologies. Diane Schiano RoomBugs: Simulating Insect Infestations in Elementary Classrooms using Commodity Hardware This paper examines the creation of an embedded simulation inside a classroom. Using minimal instrumentation we attempt to create a rich environment useful for student scientific observation and manipulation. Michael Barron The Orbital Browser: Composing Ubicomp Services Using Only Rotation and Selection Presents the design of a novel user interface to control large networks of devices using only two operations: rotation and selection. Nicolas Ducheneaut Quill: A Narrative-Based Interface for Personal Document Retrieval We present a novel interaction paradigm, narrative-based interfaces, usable for information retrieval. We describe the Quill system: soundly designed, based on user studies, it uses narratives to retrieve personal documents. Daniel Gonçalves |
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