Social computing prototypes probe the social behaviors that may arise in an envisioned
system design. This prototy** practice is currently limited to recruiting small groups of …

Toolkit research plays an important role in the field of HCI, as it can heavily influence both
the design and implementation of interactive systems. For publication, the HCI community …

Over the past two decades, many toolkits for prototy** interactive and ubiquitous
electronic devices have been developed. Although their technical specifications are often …

The advent of novel materials (such as conductive fibers) combined with accessible
embedded computing platforms have made it possible to re-imagine the landscapes of …

Iteration can help people improve ideas. It can also give rise to fixation, continuously refining
one option without considering others. Does creating and receiving feedback on multiple …

This thesis is positioned within the discipline of design research. According to Nigel Cross,
one of its pioneers, design research 'includes the study of how designers work and think, the …

People naturally understand and use proxemic relationships (eg, their distance and
orientation towards others) in everyday situations. However, only few ubiquitous computing …

The Open University's My Digital Life course offers a learning infrastructure that allows
complete novices to experiment with, and learn about, Internet-of-Things technologies by …

In this paper, we present a novel acoustic touch sensing technique called Touch & Activate.
It recognizes a rich context of touches including grasp on existing objects by attaching only a …

While the user-centered design methods we bring from human-computer interaction to
ubicomp help sketch ideas and refine prototypes, few tools or techniques help explore …