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A desktop Virtual Reality (VR) application of a skim milk powder process has been developed. The goal was to use this application as a learning resource to expose students to processing plant environments, which are becoming increasingly difficult to ...

This paper reports the influence of website design and brand on users' experience; it also explores the effect of users' cultures and values (health awareness) on their judgement of health websites. Eighty-six respondents from Jordan and the UK viewed ...

This paper describes a new three-dimensional interactive visualization supporting large scale medical data analysis. We provide a simple and effective view so that the biomedical information can be easily perceived. Our visualization also embeds a novel ...

Primary school teachers usually perform several tasks simultaneously. Many secondary tasks, such as giving turns or encouraging children to work silently, could be supported by interactive systems, which may lighten the teacher's busy everyday routine. ...

Multi-touch interfaces facilitate collaborative learning and, thus, represent a promising educational technology. Their ability to synchronously accommodate multiple users is an advantage in co-located collaborative design tasks. This paper explores the ...

Keyword-driven search has become an important way for people to find content on the World Wide Web. However, it is estimated that more than 700 million adults (Warrilow, 2009) lack sufficient literacy in either English or another major language to use ...

We present the design of an online community targeting people currently in receipt of welfare payments to help them find a job and become financially self-sufficient. We developed and deployed this online community in partnership with the Australian ...

Extensive domain-specific Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been developed for use by commentators and team managers in professional sports. Particularly developed DSS are available in basketball, baseball, and motorsports. E-sports is a burgeoning ...

Previous studies show that some software development practitioners without a usability background experience difficulties in understanding users and accepting that usability problems exist in their software. Also they do not prioritize fixing the ...

Personal information management (PIM) is of considerable interest to the information science community. Traditionally the domain of paper, desktop computers and laptops, we have seen the widespread introduction of tablet computers in PIM. In this paper ...

Avatars are ubiquitous in virtual worlds (VWs). As such, they have become central to how we understand the way they are experienced. Common conceptualisations of the user avatar relationship invoke an identity binary which has influenced discussions of ...

The ability to communicate by voice in multiplayer networked virtual worlds has become almost ubiquitous over the past decade. Yet the possibilities for creating interesting social dynamics and game play experiences through the design and configuration ...

The amount of information available on the internet has grown unabated over the years. With internet users using web search systems as a starting point into the internet, understanding the tasks involved in a web search is important to designing ...

Starting a new online community can be difficult, so to help community members to get to know each other and develop a support network, we are proposing a buddy matching program, which recommends community members to each other. The recommendations are ...

Many tools, techniques and devices have been developed to support people traversing their environment. In this paper we report findings from a series of realistic outdoor experiments conducted to understand the comparative, task-specific strengths and ...

This paper presents an investigation of alternative methods of digital library creation and configuration. Dynamic collection previews were utilized in order to assist collection administrators when creating and managing collections. Greenstone was used ...

This paper describes an exploration into factors influencing the interaction of cognitive processing with visual and motor skills during website use by older adults. Twenty-eight older adults and 18 younger adults completed an on-line air-ticketing ...

Augmented Books show three-dimensional animated educational content and provide a means for students to interact with this content in an engaging learning experience. In this paper we present a framework for creating educational Augmented Reality (AR) ...

Unlike traditional mass media, peer interaction between individuals is of critical importance in the dissemination mechanisms for social media. There is emerging interest in the possible novel application of social media in disseminating public health ...

This paper introduces the first iteration of a study aimed at grouping similar food types together in a refrigerator to increase the awareness of available foods for consumers in a domestic environment. The goals of the project are twofold: i) Raise the ...

Students undertaking summative and formative assessment are very much aware of the imperative of the outcome and often find themselves in a stressful situation with a high level of required concentration. Usability testing of assessment tool interfaces ...

Medical procedures are often associated with discomfort, pain and anxiety. Previous studies have shown that one way to reduce pain during treatment is to watch nature scenes and listen to nature sounds or escape into immersive virtual environments. This ...

Not-for-profit organizations put considerable effort into community-based Information Technology (IT) projects to bridge the gap between the 'haves and the 'have-nots' of the digital divide. However, the outcomes of these IT projects are often seen as ...

The term gamification describes the addition of game elements to non-game contexts as a means to motivate and engage users. This study investigates the design, delivery and pilot evaluation of a gamified, smartphone application built to introduce new ...

This paper presents Secret SLQ, a pervasive mobile game that aims to encourage eight to fourteen year olds to engage with the State Library of Queensland. The game sets out to encourage people to visit and explore the library, as well as educate a ...

Whole-body computer control interfaces present new opportunities to engage children with games for learning. Stomp is a suite of educational games that use such a technology, allowing young children to use their whole body to interact with a digital ...

The use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets in classrooms has been met with mixed sentiments. Some instructors and teachers see them as a distraction and regularly ban their usage. Others who see their potential to enhance learning have ...

In recent times application developers are endeavouring to achieve viral growth of the application user base ecosystems. Viral Meme Propagation is the underlying phenomenon, which enables these applications to reach multiple users in a short period of ...

The convergence of locative and social media with collaborative interfaces and data visualisation has expanded the potential of online information provision. Offering new ways for communities to share contextually specific information, it presents the ...

Despite the inter-relationship between physical, cognitive and social factors for older people, the frequency of physical activity typically decreases with age. In this paper, we focus on two specific issues related to physical activity and older people ...