This paper is about the development of systems whose end users are professional people
working in a specific domain (eg, medicine, geology, mechanical engineering); they are …

Computers are increasingly being seen not only as computing tools but more so as
communication tools, thus placing special emphasis on human-computer interaction (HCI) …

The fields of artificial intelligence, intelligence control, and intelligent systems are constantly
changing in the subject area of information science and technology. Semiotics and …

In a navigation-oriented interaction paradigm, such as desktop, mixed and augmented
virtual reality, recognizing the user needs is a valuable improvement, provided that the …

In recent years a number of techniques have been studied for augmenting the ease of use of
3D worlds: methodologies for adapting both navigation and content allow a user to interact …

This paper proposes a new effective strategy for designing and implementing interactive
systems overcoming culture, skill and situation hurdles in Human-Computer Interaction …

Visual languages (VLs) facilitate software development by not only supporting
communication and abstraction, but also by generating various artifacts such as code and …

This paper presents an approach to support the designer of Visual Interactive Systems
(VISs) in adapting a VIS to the evolution of its users. This process is called co-evolution of …

Digital annotation of multimedia objects is an activity central to many important tasks, such
as studying, commenting on, indexing and retrieving. Although annotation is becoming …

This paper proposes a new approach and a tool to assess user interfaces by applying the
ACE (Automatic Color Equalization) algorithm for computing the alternative distribution of …