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MAWL: Mobile Assisted Word-Learning
Pramod Verma, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Word-learning is one of the basic steps in languagelearning. A
general traditional approach for learning newwords is to keep a
dictionary and use it whenever oneencounters a new word. This
video demonstrates MobileAssisted Word-Learning (MAWL)[1]: an
augmentedreality based collaborative social-networking interface
forlearning new words using a smartphone. MAWL keepstrack and
saves all textual contexts during reading processalong with
providing augmented reality-based assistancesuch as images,
translation into native language,synonyms, antonyms, sentence
usage etc.
Pen-in-Hand Command: NUI for Real-Time Strategy
eSports
William Hamilton, Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M University, USA
Jonathan Moeller, Interface Ecology Lab
Electronic Sports (eSports) is the professional play and spectating
of digital games. Real-time strategy games are a form of eSport
that require particularly high- performance and precise interaction.
Prior eSports HCI has been keyboard and mouse based. We
investigate the real-time strategy eSports context to design novel
interactions with embodied modalities, because of its rigorous
needs and requirements, and the centrality of the humancomputer
interface as the medium of game mechanics. To sense
pen + multi-touch interaction, we augment a Wacom Cintiq with a
ZeroTouch multi-finger sensor. We used this modality to design
new pen + touch interaction for play in real-time strategy eSports.
Pet Video Chat: Monitoring and Interacting with Dogs
over Distance
Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Companies are now making video-communication systems that
allow pet owners to see, and, in some cases, even interact with
their pets when they are separated by distance. Such ‘doggie
cams’ show promise, yet it is not clear how pet video chat systems
should be designed (if at all) in order to meet the real needs of pet
owners. To investigate the potential of interactive dog cams, we
then designed our own pet video chat system that augments a
Skype audio-video connection with remote interaction features
and evaluated it with pet owners to understand its usage. Our
results show promise for pet video chat systems that allow owners
to see and interact with their pets while away.
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PINOKY: A Ring-like Device that Gives Movement to
Any Plush Toy
Yuta Sugiura, Calista Lee, Masayasu Ogata, Anusha Withana,
Yasutoshi Makino, Keio University, Japan
Daisuke Sakamoto, JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project,
Japan
Masahiko Inami, Keio University, Japan
Takeo Igarashi, JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project,
Japan
Everyone has owned or have been in contact with plush toys in
their life, and plush toys play an integral part in many areas, for
example in a child’s growing up process, in the medical field, and
as a form of communication media. In order to enhance the
interaction experience with plush toys, we created the PINOKY.
PINOKY is a wireless, ring-like device that can be externally
attached to any plush toy as an accessory that animates the toy by
moving its limbs. It is a non-intrusive device, and users can
instantly convert their personal plush toys into soft robots.
Currently, there are several interactions, such as letting the user
control the toy remotely, or inputting the desired movement by
moving the toy, and having the data recorded and played back.
Plushbot: an Introduction to Computer Science
Yingdan Huang, Michael Eisenberg, University of Colorado
Boulder, USA
We present the Plushbot project that focuses on providing a more
motivating introduction of computer science to middle school
students, employing tangible programming of plush toys as its
central activity. About sixty students, ages 12-14, participated in a
7.5-week study in which they created and programmed their own
plush toys. In order to achieve these, they learned and used
several tools, including LilyPad Arduino, Modkit and a web-based
application called Plushbot, which permits the user to integrate
circuitry design with a pattern of plush toy pieces. Once a design
is complete, the user can print the pattern and use it as a template
for creating a plush toy. Plushbot is a system that allows children to
create their own interactive plush toys with computational
elements and ideas embedded.
SIGCHI SPrAyCE: A Space Spray Input for Fast Shape
Drawing
Raphael Kim, Pattie Maes, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
Current technological solutions that enable sharing some shapebased
ideas are often time demanding and painful to use. The
goal of this project is to create a new device, a new way of drawing
in an intuitive way. A spray-based input is created to allow natural
gestures to draw 3D objects and manipulate the drawing.