More than human aesthetics: interactive enrichment for elephants

Species-specific aesthetics is an important consideration for interaction designers working with animals. The paper explores the concept of species-specific aesthetics with particular reference to elephants. Applying existing aesthetic dimensions and design principles to the challenge of designing interactive enrichment for them, we show how the insights gained can inform more than human centered design in different settings. We offer a multi-faceted, multi-sensory lens for examining an animal-centred aesthetic experience of technology

CHI 2020: Right Here, Right Now?

Over the last twenty years the CHI conference has grown substantially. However, with the reframing of climate change as a climate crisis, environmental concerns have become increasingly pervasive in the community. In 2019 CHI introduced a sustainability role and set a goal to make CHI more sustainable. In 2020 CHI is in Hawaii. This work looks back over the last two decades and estimates what are substantial and growing CO2 emissions from conference travel. First, it posits how, in the short term, potential environmental damage can be minimised. Second, and longer-term, it invites the community to reflect on research dissemination and how the conference experience may need to change.This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/R004471/

Violencia de pareja en estudiantes de octavo ciclo de la Licenciatura en Psicología. Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca – Azuay, periodo académico 2022

La violencia en pareja es un fenómeno de salud pública que afecta en gran medida a las parejas de adultos jóvenes con o sin una relación formal, generando un daño físico, psicológico o sexual contra la persona con la que se mantiene un vínculo íntimo. La violencia de pareja es un tema poco estudiado en la población de adolescentes y jóvenes dentro del contexto ecuatoriano, es por ello que la presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar la incidencia de violencia en la pareja y sus dominios de abuso constitutivos, en estudiantes de octavo ciclo de la Licenciatura en Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca. El estudio tiene un enfoque cuantitativo, con diseño no experimental, de corte transversal y de alcance descriptivo; la población de estudio estuvo conformada por 79 estudiantes de octavo ciclo de la Licenciatura en Psicología. Se utilizó el cuestionario de violencia entre novios CUVINO, que evalúa la violencia sufrida dentro de las relaciones de pareja. Los resultados evidenciaron que el dominio que incidió con mayor frecuencia en la violencia de pareja, fue el desapego, en un nivel leve, presente en un 50.6% del grupo de estudio, seguido por el dominio de coerción en un nivel leve, con un 44.3%. El dominio que se presentó con menos incidencia fue el físico, con un nivel leve, en el 3.8 % del total de participantes. Se concluye que la violencia en la pareja estuvo presente en un nivel leve dentro de los dominios de abuso constitutivos en la población estudiada.Intimate partner violence is a public health phenomenon that largely affects young adult couples with or without a formal relationship, generating physical, psychological or sexual harm against the person with whom an intimate bond is maintained. Partner violence is a little studied topic in the population of adolescents and young adults in the Ecuadorian context, which is why this research aims to determine the incidence of partner violence and its constituent abuse domains, in eighth cycle students of psychology at the University of Cuenca. The study has a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental design, cross-sectional and descriptive scope; the study population consisted of 79 eighth-cycle undergraduate psychology students. The CUVINO dating violence questionnaire was used, which evaluates the violence suffered within couple relationships. The results showed that the domain most frequently involved in partner violence was detachment, at a slight level, present in 50.6% of the study group, followed by the domain of coercion at a slight level, with 44.3%. The domain with the lowest incidence was physical violence, with a slight level, in 3.8% of the total number of participants. It is concluded that intimate partner violence was present at a mild level within the constituent abuse domains in the population studied.Psicólogo EducativoCuenc

Using gherkin to extract tests and monitors for safer medical device interaction design

Number entry systems on medical devices are safety critical and it is important to get them right. Interaction design teams can be multidisciplinary, and in this work we present a process where the requirements of the system are drawn up using a Controlled Natural Language (CNL) that is understandable by non-technical experts or clients. These CNL requirements can also be directly used by the Quality Assurance (QA) team to test the system and monitor whether or not the system runs as it should once deployed. Since commonly, systems are too complex to test all possible execution paths before deployment, monitoring the system at runtime is useful in order to check that the system is running correctly. If at runtime, it is discovered that an anomaly is detected, the relevant personnel is notified through a report in natural language.peer-reviewe

How to build a supervised autonomous system for robot-enhanced therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder

Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT) has successfully been used to improve social skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) through remote control of the robot in so-called Wizard of Oz (WoZ) paradigms.However, there is a need to increase the autonomy of the robot both to lighten the burden on human therapists (who have to remain in control and, importantly, supervise the robot) and to provide a consistent therapeutic experience. This paper seeks to provide insight into increasing the autonomy level of social robots in therapy to move beyond WoZ. With the final aim of improved human-human social interaction for the children, this multidisciplinary research seeks to facilitate the use of social robots as tools in clinical situations by addressing the challenge of increasing robot autonomy.We introduce the clinical framework in which the developments are tested, alongside initial data obtained from patients in a first phase of the project using a WoZ set-up mimicking the targeted supervised-autonomy behaviour. We further describe the implemented system architecture capable of providing the robot with supervised autonomy

In the eye of the student : "An intangible cultural heritage experience, with a human-computer interaction twist"

We critically engage with CHI communities emerging outside the global North (ArabHCI and AfriCHI) to explore how participation is configured and enacted within sociocultural and political contexts fundamentally different from Western societies. We contribute to recent discussions about postcolonialism and decolonization of HCI by focusing on non-Western future technology designers. Our lens was a course designed to engage Egyptian students with a local yet culturally-distant community to design applications for documenting intangible heritage. Through an action research, the instructors reflect on selected students' activities. Despite deploying a flexible learning curriculum that encourages greater autonomy, the students perceived themselves with less agency than other institutional stakeholders involved in the project. Further, some of them struggled to empathize with the community as the impact of the cultural differences on configuring participation was profound. We discuss the implications of the findings on HCI education and in international cross-cultural design projects

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ABSTRACT Researchers often use participatory design -involving endusers in technology ideation -as this is found to lead to more useful and relevant products. Researchers have sought to involve older adults in the design of emerging technologies like smartphones, with which older adults often have little experience. Therefore, their effectiveness as co-designers could be questioned. We examine whether older adults can create novel design ideas, and whether critiquing existing applications prior to ideation helps or hinders creativity. Panelists from industry and academia evaluated design ideas generated by focus groups of older adults. Out of five groups, the most creative idea came from one with no smartphone experience or critique exposure. We found that while only some groups scored high on the novelty dimension of creativity, participants were enthusiastic about participating and adapted quickly. We found evidence that critiquing existing applications prior to ideation did more harm than good, potentially due to design fixation. We recommend continuing to involve older adults in the technology design ideation phase

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ABSTRACT A cord, although simple in form, has many interesting physical affordances that make it powerful as an input device. Not only can a length of cord be grasped in different locations, but also pulled, twisted and bent-four distinct and expressive dimensions that could potentially act in concert. Such an input mechanism could be readily integrated into headphones, backpacks, and clothing. Once grasped in the hand, a cord can be used in an eyes-free manner to control mobile devices, which often feature small screens and cramped buttons. In this note, we describe a proof-ofconcept cord-based sensor, which senses three of the four input dimensions we propose. In addition to a discussion of potential uses, we also present results from our preliminary user study. The latter sought to compare the targeting performance and selection accuracy of different cord-based input modalities. We conclude with brief set of design recommendations drawn upon results from our study

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ABSTRACT The Atlantic cod is one of the most important commercial species known. The behavior of this species, important for fisheries, research and stock assessment, is in many ways masked by extensive horizontal and vertical dispersion in its habitat. The potential of using the Theme software in behavior studies of commercial fish stocks was tested using data from tagging experiments with adult cod in Icelandic waters. The time series were prepared for T-pattern analysis, including detection and delimitation of tidal influence in the data and event basing raw data according to predefined events. A high number of temporal patterns were detected, patterns of repeated vertical movements and speed and acceleration changes. Number of specific temporal patterns were also identified within and across vertical movements of individual cod. Future objective is to explore these patterns in relation to environmental factors and horizontal location