« Panel: The State of Tangible Interfaces | Main | Thursday - Disabilities - 11:30 - 516D »
April 27, 2006
Papers: Beliefs and Affect
[In progress from 11:30 - 13:00 at 511abde]
HCI, with its roots in Human Factors Engineering has traditionally been focused on efficiency and task completion. Lately, though, there is recognition that the affective aspects of human-machine systems play a role in the users' experience of a system, as well as having important implications for the usability of interfaces. Drawing on a tradition of psychological work on belief and affect, the speakers in this session present papers on how the affective aspects of interfaces can improve interaction, and how to measure and use affect in designing interfaces.
Paper Can a Virtual Cat Persuade You? The Role of Gender and Realism in Speaker Persuasiveness
Presents findings revealing how virtual characters are as persuasive as real people and that cross-gender interactions transfer to virtual speakers. Explains how virtual characters can be exploited for persuasive interfaces.
Catherine Zanbaka, Paula Goolkasian, Larry Hodges
Paper The Sensual Evaluation Instrument: Developing an Effective Evaluation Tool
Describes an instrument for collecting real-time self-assessment of affect. Portable, may work across cultures, offers consistency and flexibility. Can help elicit emotional feedback quickly and easily during the design process.
Katherine Isbister, Kristina Höök, Michael Sharp, Jarmo Laaksolahti
Note Listening to Your Inner Voices: Investigating Means for Voice Notifications
Reports on an user study of the notification qualities of voice and the development and deployment of a system exploiting the results. Suggests that voice familiarity is a useful property for notification.
Saurabh Bhatia, Scott McCrickard
Note Adaptive Language Behavior in HCI: How Expectations and Beliefs about a System Affect Users' Word Choice
Experimentally demonstrates that users adapt language behaviors depending on beliefs about the sophistication of a system. Suggests that designers should attend to relevant 'non-functional' system characteristics.
Jamie Pearson, Jiang Hu, Martin Pickering, Holly Branigan, Clifford Nass
Posted by sv3 at April 27, 2006 10:27 AM