scholarly journals Digital fun: maximizing the enjoymnet of youth playspaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Julien
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
User Testing ◽  
Natural User Interface ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Computer Interaction

This project explored the “fun” of youth digital play through a custom built interactive playtool. This research is based in the developmental value of play for children, the changes to youth play that have taken place as interactions have become increasingly digital, and the design benefits of unobtrusive interfaces. Using academic research sources from both paediatric occupational therapists and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) specialists, a variety of parameters were developed to maximize the developmental value and fun of digital play. These parameters created a guideline of design considerations for the target users of children six to nine years old. An open-ended Natural User Interface (NUI) was designed and built that encourages explorative interactions as a method of understanding its use. User testing was then used to establish if the open-ended play was evaluated as more “fun” than more traditional collaborative or competitive gaming.

scholarly journals Digital fun: maximizing the enjoymnet of youth playspaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Julien
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
User Testing ◽  
Natural User Interface ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Computer Interaction

This project explored the “fun” of youth digital play through a custom built interactive playtool. This research is based in the developmental value of play for children, the changes to youth play that have taken place as interactions have become increasingly digital, and the design benefits of unobtrusive interfaces. Using academic research sources from both paediatric occupational therapists and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) specialists, a variety of parameters were developed to maximize the developmental value and fun of digital play. These parameters created a guideline of design considerations for the target users of children six to nine years old. An open-ended Natural User Interface (NUI) was designed and built that encourages explorative interactions as a method of understanding its use. User testing was then used to establish if the open-ended play was evaluated as more “fun” than more traditional collaborative or competitive gaming.

Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction Technology Based on Kinect

2013 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 478-482
Author(s):  
Zhen Fang Teng
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Natural User Interface ◽  
Computer Interaction

Kinect marks the arrival of the era of body feeling interaction, which strides over a big step to the ultimate goal of the human-computer interaction (natural user interface). The Kinect is introduced in the aspects of composition, operation principle, function, development mode. In addition, the latest application examples in the fields except for games are also told. So, it has certain theoretical research and practical application value for the researchers and engineers that are eager for studying Kinect technology.

scholarly journals Development of a Hand Gestures SDK for NUI-Based Applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Seongjo Lee ◽  
Sohyun Sim ◽  
Kyhyun Um ◽  
Young-Sik Jeong ◽  
Seung-won Jung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Natural User Interface ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Computer Interaction

Concomitant with the advent of the ubiquitous era, research into better human computer interaction (HCI) for human-focused interfaces has intensified. Natural user interface (NUI), in particular, is being actively investigated with the objective of more intuitive and simpler interaction between humans and computers. However, developing NUI-based applications without special NUI-related knowledge is difficult. This paper proposes a NUI-specific SDK, called “Gesture SDK,” for development of NUI-based applications. Gesture SDK provides a gesture generator with which developers can directly define gestures. Further, a “Gesture Recognition Component” is provided that enables defined gestures to be recognized by applications. We generated gestures using the proposed SDK and developed a “Smart Interior,” NUI-based application using the Gesture Recognition Component. The results of experiments conducted indicate that the recognition rate of the generated gestures was 96% on average.

PWIG - Interactive Paradigm of Direct Touch Interaction

2013 ◽  
Vol 765-767 ◽  
pp. 1722-1725
Author(s):  
Feng Wang ◽  
Qi Fan ◽  
Hui Deng ◽  
Ji Bin Yin
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Natural User Interface ◽  
Touch Interaction ◽  
Statistical Analysis Method ◽  
Computer Interaction

The direct touch interaction is considered as an important part of natural human-computer interaction and has become one of the hotspots in recent years. However, current touch interactive designs still rely on traditional WIMP paradigm seriously. To prompt and develop a dedicated user interface for direct touch interaction, in this paper, we explore the interactive features of the touch user interface through statistical analysis method. We classify and summary on the components of user interface from three current mainstream mobile platforms, further abstract the components for touch operation paradigm and finally propose an interactive paradigm based on the Post-WIMP environment: PWIG (Page/Frame, Widget, Icon/Button and Gesture) paradigm. After the evaluation of PWIG paradigm, we think PWIG paradigm is more suitable for direct touch interaction and should guide the design of the natural user interface for direct touch systems.

scholarly journals Adapting the unified software development process for user interface development

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeljko Obrenovic ◽  
Dusan Starcevic
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Multimodal Interfaces ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Unified Process ◽  
Uml Models ◽  
Computer Interaction

In this paper we describe how existing software developing processes, such as Rational Unified Process, can be adapted in order to allow disciplined and more efficient development of user interfaces. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate that standard modeling environments, based on the UML, can be adapted and efficiently used for user interfaces development. We have integrated the HCI knowledge into developing processes by semantically enriching the models created in each of the process activities of the process. By using UML, we can make easier use of HCI knowledge for ordinary software engineers who, usually, are not familiar with results of HCI researches, so these results can have broader and more practical effects. By providing a standard means for representing human computer interaction, we can seamlessly transfer UML models of multimodal interfaces between design and specialized analysis tools. Standardization provides a significant driving force for further progress because it codifies best practices enables and encourages reuse, and facilitates inter working between complementary tools. Proposed solutions can be valuable for software developers, who can improve quality of user interfaces and their communication with user interface designers, as well as for human computer interaction researchers, who can use standard methods to include their results into software developing processes.

Using Information Retrieval for Interaction with Mobile Devices

2014 ◽  
pp. 286-302
Author(s):  
Kamer Ali YUKSEL
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Multimedia Retrieval ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Outdoor Environments ◽  
Computer Interaction

Future's environments will be sensitive and responsive to the presence of people to support them carrying out their everyday life activities, tasks and rituals, in an easy and natural way. Such interactive spaces will use the information and communication technologies to bring the computation into the physical world in order to enhance ordinary activities of their users. Human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR) fields have both developed innovative techniques to address the challenge of navigating complex information spaces, but their insights have often failed to cross-disciplinary borders. Human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) has emerged in academic research and industry practice to bring together research in the fields of IR and HCI, in order to create new kinds of search systems that depend on continuous human control of the search process. HCIR is the study of information retrieval techniques that bring human intelligence into the search process. This chapter will describe search-based interaction techniques using two human-computer interaction information retrieval systems: (1) a speech-based spoken multimedia retrieval system that can be used to present relevant video-podcast (vodcast) footage in response to spontaneous speech and conversations during daily life activities, and (2) a novel shape retrieval technique that allows 3D modeling of indoor/outdoor environments using multi-view sketch input from a mobile device.

Web Usability

2005 ◽  
pp. 3074-3078
Author(s):  
Shirley Ann Becker
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Personal Computer ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Computing Machinery ◽  
Computer Interaction

The study of computing technology and user interfaces was initiated during the 1970s when industrial research laboratories began to focus on human-computer interaction (HCI) (Badre, 2002). In the 1980s, the personal computer was introduced, thus expanding the need for designing effective user interfaces. HCI became a discipline during this time, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) established the Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction. One of the first textbooks on HCI, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (Schneiderman, 19891), was published. Shortly thereafter, HCI became part of the ACM curriculum promoting the development of effective user interfaces. Software tools were developed in order to assist in designing usable interfaces while employing usability engineering methods. Many of these methods focused on usability from the perspective of ease of use, ease of learning, user satisfaction, and zero defects (Nielsen, 1993).

scholarly journals Development of measurement instrument for visual qualities of graphical user interface elements (VISQUAL): a test in the context of mobile game icons

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 949-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrietta Jylhä ◽  
Juho Hamari
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Computer Interaction

Abstract Graphical user interfaces are widely common and present in everyday human–computer interaction, dominantly in computers and smartphones. Today, various actions are performed via graphical user interface elements, e.g., windows, menus and icons. An attractive user interface that adapts to user needs and preferences is progressively important as it often allows personalized information processing that facilitates interaction. However, practitioners and scholars have lacked an instrument for measuring user perception of aesthetics within graphical user interface elements to aid in creating successful graphical assets. Therefore, we studied dimensionality of ratings of different perceived aesthetic qualities in GUI elements as the foundation for the measurement instrument. First, we devised a semantic differential scale of 22 adjective pairs by combining prior scattered measures. We then conducted a vignette experiment with random participant (n = 569) assignment to evaluate 4 icons from a total of pre-selected 68 game app icons across 4 categories (concrete, abstract, character and text) using the semantic scales. This resulted in a total of 2276 individual icon evaluations. Through exploratory factor analyses, the observations converged into 5 dimensions of perceived visual quality: Excellence/Inferiority, Graciousness/Harshness, Idleness/Liveliness, Normalness/Bizarreness and Complexity/Simplicity. We then proceeded to conduct confirmatory factor analyses to test the model fit of the 5-factor model with all 22 adjective pairs as well as with an adjusted version of 15 adjective pairs. Overall, this study developed, validated, and consequently presents a measurement instrument for perceptions of visual qualities of graphical user interfaces and/or singular interface elements (VISQUAL) that can be used in multiple ways in several contexts related to visual human-computer interaction, interfaces and their adaption.

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