Engaging users is a priority for designers of products and services of every kind. The need to
understand users' experiences has motivated a focus on user engagement across computer …

Purpose The purpose of this research is to study how current research reports reflect on
using public displays in the smart city. In particular, it looks at the state-of-the-art of this …

Carbon neutral is among the possible ways of solving the problem of climate change. Many
scholars have utilized different single indicators such as CO 2 and methane with different …

The deployment of technology interventions, such as public displays and mobile apps, in
community settings has been found to engage people in sharing and comparing their …

Software engineering for 'social good'is an area receiving growing interest in recent years.
Software is increasingly seen as a way to promote positive social change: this includes …

In this paper, we extensively investigate local features based facial expression recognition
with face registration errors, which has never been addressed before. Our contributions are …

Gathering public opinions, such as surveys, at events typically requires approaching people
in situ, but this can disrupt the positive experience they are having and can result in very low …

Viewpoint is a public voting device developed to allow residents in a disadvantaged
community to make their voices heard through a simple, lightweight interaction. This was …

This paper presents Clasp, a novel tactile anxiety management, communication and peer
support tool developed with, by and for adults diagnosed with High Functioning Autism …

Reliable weather estimation traditionally requires a dense network of meteorological
measurement stations. The concept of participatory sensing promises to alleviate this …