Creating augmented and virtual reality applications: Current practices, challenges, and opportunities

N Ashtari, A Bunt, J McGrenere, M Nebeling… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) devices are becoming easier to access
and use, but the barrier to entry for creating AR/VR applications remains high. Although the …

Exploring human-robot interaction with the elderly: results from a ten-week case study in a care home

F Carros, J Meurer, D Löffler, D Unbehaun… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Ageing societies and the associated pressure on the care systems are major drivers for new
developments in socially assistive robotics. To understand better the real-world potential of …

Mitigating information overload in social media during conflicts and crises: Design and evaluation of a cross-platform alerting system

MA Kaufhold, N Rupp, C Reuter… - Behaviour & Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during conflicts and crises. Social media allow emergency services to …

ThermoPixels: Toolkit for personalizing arousal-based interfaces through hybrid crafting

M Umair, C Sas, M Alfaras - Proceedings of the 2020 acm designing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Much research has shown the potential of affective interfaces for reflection on, and
understanding of bodily responses. Yet, people find it difficult to engage with, and …

Analysing trade-offs in frameworks for the design of smart environments

C Ardito, G Desolda, R Lanzilotti, A Malizia… - Behaviour & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Smart Interactive Experiences (SIEs) are usage situations enabled by the
Internet of Things that empower users to interact with the surrounding environment. The goal …

Towards end-user development of graphical user interfaces for internet of things

BA Johnsson, B Magnusson - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Graphical user interface (GUI) development is generally complicated, time-consuming, and
requires programming knowledge. In the context of the internet of things, this work focuses …

EUD-MARS: end-user development of model-driven adaptive robotics software systems

PA Akiki, PA Akiki, AK Bandara, Y Yu - Science of Computer Programming, 2020 - Elsevier
Empowering end-users to program robots is becoming more significant. Introducing software
engineering principles into end-user programming could improve the quality of the …

End-user development of experience sampling smartphone apps-recommendations and requirements

DJ Rough, A Quigley - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Professional programmers are significantly outnumbered by end-users of software, making it
problematic to predict the diverse, dynamic needs of these users in advance. An end-user …

TAPrec: supporting the composition of trigger-action rules through dynamic recommendations

F Corno, L De Russis, A Monge Roffarello - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, users can personalize the joint behavior of their connected entities, ie, smart
devices and online service, by means of trigger-action rules. As the number of supported …

Trading off between control and autonomy: a narrative review around de-design

F Cabitza, A Locoro, A Ravarini - Behaviour & Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we provide an overview of contemporary perspectives of design that may
challenge the traditional design of IT and socio-technical systems. Our starting metaphor is …