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As network interaction increases, social experience design has been increasing in its importance. Interpersonal interaction is an essential part of social experience design. Gifts play an important role in society in social rewarding and the expectation of reciprocity. In the virtual world, gifts can be represented through an intangible format, as "information treats." The author discusses...
Emotional information is being used in several systems as a way to understand users while interacting with computers or as a way to explore content classification. Movies are a medium emotionally empowered and technological developments and trends for media convergence are turning video into a dominant and pervasive medium, and online video is becoming a growing entertainment activity on the web....
Various personalized recommendation services are provided through internet for users with different screen sizes and various sensors. It is also expected to be many competing service providers for similar recommendation service, and the users are expected to have the chances to select one of these services. However, the user related information as well as the environmental information around the user...
Nowadays, people use on-line services to conduct various tasks such as on-line shopping and holiday trip planning using web applications. Generally users are required to enter information into web forms to interact with the web applications. However they often have to type in the same information to different web applications repetitively. It could be a tedious job for a user to fill in a large amount...
In this paper, we propose a lyrics writing support system focused on the number of syllables, rhyme and word accent. The system generates candidate sentences that satisfy user-specified conditions based on N-gram, and presents them. Users can use the system like a dictionary, and write lyrics be choosing presented sentences. In our subjective evaluations, we have investigated how the system is utilized...
This paper presents the results of a questionnaire on user behaviour during searching the Web as part of information gathering tasks. In this study, users' Web activities related to finding information, comparing information, managing information, and re-finding information, using different Web search and navigation tools, used for information gathering tasks are explored. The results indicate that...
Mobile phones are increasingly able to read auto-id labels, such as barcodes or RFID tags. As virtually all consumer products sold today are equipped with such a label, this opens the possibility for a wide range of novel digital services building on physical products. In this paper, we discuss the problems that arise when such novel applications are deployed, and present a unified system architecture...
Effectively assisting people in complex and highly dynamic work environment requires advances in high-level declarative activity models that can describe the flow of human work activities and their intended outcomes, as well as novel interaction approach for distributing and coordinating information across physical objects, time and space. This paper describes a novel modeling technique for pervasive...
For better or worse, the web browser has become a widely used target platform for software applications. In the era of web-based software, the web browser will serve as the primary user interface for end-user applications. In this paper, we introduce the Lively Dock, a user interface mechanism that can be used to host miniaturized yet active web applications in a web browser. The system is built as...
The paper details the modeling and processing of a semantic behavior repository for Web users/customers in the context of an application model that involves the capturing of eye tracking during the user-interface interaction, AJAX-style communication between the client and the server, and the conversion of user attention maps to convenient data structures. Due to the problem complexity, the client-side...
Document processing has the characteristics of MVC. By using MVC pattern, a document processing system can be divided into the roles of model, view and controller. This article proposes a framework of office document processing based on MVC and XForms and discusses the key technologies of on-line office document processing system, as well as how to recognize and separate model, view and controller...
Widget aggregators such as iGoogle and Netvibes are broadly adopted by the mass market. They enable end-users to personalize their environment with their preferred services (Widgets). However, the usage in an enterprise context is not yet investigated. In this paper, we firstly show that in addition to personalization capability, the integration of business processes should be considered. Secondly,...
This paper addresses questions of contextual learning experience sharing among users in personal learning environments. As learning environments has become personal and user oriented, a user can acquire knowledge and learning experiences anywhere and anytime by reading public or personal online learning resources aggregated by a set of provided tools. In this paper, we propose a system allowing a...
The small form-factor of mobile handsets and the longer, variable latency of cellular networks are major hindrances to good user experience in mobile web related activities. Existing approaches have yet to adequately address the usability concerns caused by them. This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of MIntOS (Mobile Interaction Optimization System), a system for improving...
Mobile devices that are capable of playing Internet videos have become wide-spread in recent years. Because of the enormous offer of video content, the lack of sufficient presentation space on the screen, and the laborious navigation on mobile devices, the video consumption process becomes more complicated for the end-user. To handle this problem, people need new instruments to assist with the hunting,...
The Web offers autonomous and frequently useful resources in growing manner. User Generated Content (UGC) like Wikis, Weblogs or Webfeeds often do not have one responsible authorship or declared experts who checked the created content for e.g. accuracy, availability, objectivity or reputation. The user is not able easily, to control the quality of the content he receives. If we want to utilize the...
Improvements in Internet-based database connectivities and interactive interfacing allow for real-time interaction between users. While, Internet-based learning platforms facilitate, in general, exchange of text, image, and movie files, academic education in design-oriented domains needs support in knowledge exchange with respect to design related issues such as 2D drafting and 3D-4D modeling. In...
This paper presents methods for capturing and storing gaming related context information into online gamer created profiles. Captured information may not be manipulated while being processed and stored within user created profiles and therefore is reliable. We propose a concept of client side capturing of profile information within the working environment of a gamer playing online games and a profile...
Remote control over the internet is a popular research topic. Various Internet-based remote control systems are proposed, but how to generate dynamically a Web user interface for any given remote control system is still a problem. This paper proposes an intelligent web user interface (IWUI) service to overcome the problem. Supported by a Web Service-based Remote Control Service System (WSRCSS), this...
Our goal is to use the vast repositories of available open source code to generate specific functions or classes that meet a user's specifications. The key words here are specifications and generate. We let users specify what they are looking for as precisely as possible using keywords, class or method signatures, test cases, contracts, and security constraints using a simple, Web-based interface...
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