GlobalFestival: Evaluating Real World Interaction on a Spherical Display

Spherical displays present compelling opportunities for interaction in public spaces. However, there is little research into how touch interaction should control a spherical surface or how these displays are used in real world settings. This paper presents an in the wild deployment of an application for a spherical display called GlobalFestival that utilises two different touch interaction techniques. The first version of the application allows users to spin and tilt content on the display, while the second version only allows spinning the content. During the 4-day deployment, we collected overhead video data and on-display interaction logs. The analysis brings together quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how users approach and move around the display, how on screen interaction compares in the two versions of the application, and how the display supports social interaction given its novel form factor

Analysing Pedestrian Traffic Around Public Displays

This paper presents a powerful approach to evaluating public technologies by capturing and analysing pedestrian traffic using computer vision. This approach is highly flexible and scales better than traditional ethnographic techniques often used to evaluate technology in public spaces. This technique can be used to evaluate a wide variety of public installations and the data collected complements existing approaches. Our technique allows behavioural analysis of both interacting users and non-interacting passers-by. This gives us the tools to understand how technology changes public spaces, how passers-by approach or avoid public technologies, and how different interaction styles work in public spaces. In the paper, we apply this technique to two large public displays and a street performance. The results demonstrate how metrics such as walking speed and proximity can be used for analysis, and how this can be used to capture disruption to pedestrian traffic and passer-by approach patterns

Rules of Engagement: design attributes for social interactions

We present a taxonomy for the design of workplace “break” spaces. The taxonomy can be used to identify aspects of current spaces that are either successful or problematic. From this analysis, we demonstrate how the taxonomy can be used to identify opportunities for computer mediated augmentation of spaces, and how such designs can be validated against this taxonomy

HIGGINS: where knowledge acquisition meets the crowds

We present HIGGINS, an engine for high quality Knowl- edge Acquisition (KA), placing special emphasis on its ar- chitecture. The distinguishing characteristic and novelty of HIGGINS lies in its special blending of two engines: An automated Information Extraction (IE) engine, aided by semantic resources, and a game-based, Human Computing engine (HC). We focus on KA from web data and text sources and, in particular, on deriving relationships between enti- ties. As a running application we utilise movie narratives, using which we wish to derive relationships among movie characters

Influence of the pride of belonging and other variables in the modelling of repurchase behavior. An application for the higher education context

El presente trabajo en curso incluye una revisión de la presencia de la variable repetición de compra y del constructo lealtad dentro de la literatura e investigación académica en el contexto de la educación superior, como industria de servicio. Esta intención de repetición de compra será modelizada a través de diferentes variables, algunas ya consideradas en otros estudios y a las cuales se les suma la posible influencia del sentido de pertenencia, de tanto significado para los estudiantes y exestudiantes. En esta investigación sobre la importancia del comportamiento en la recompra se considerará una nueva variable vinculada a la estimación del tiempo de recompra.The present research includes a literature review of the variable purchase repetition and the construct loyalty within the literature and academic research in the context of higher education as a service industry. This repurchase intention will be modelled through different variables, many of them already considered in other studies to which is added the possible influence of the pride of belonging, of such significance to students and alumni. In this study on the importance of the repurchase behavior, a new variable will be considered: the estimated time of repurchase

“‘Hel-heime!’: The Daring Love Between Men in Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien”

This article briefly summarizes the homo-amorous connections between members of the T.C.B.S. in the Karukoski\u27s film, Tolkien