Interactive Tutorials
Invited Interactive Tutorial
Mobile-based Tangible Interaction Design for Shared Displays
Date: Tuesday, September 23
Location: Studio E
Time: 9:00-12:00
Organizers: Ali Mazalek, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ahmed Sabbir Arif, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prerequisite/requirements: : This tutorial is intended for mobile HCI enthusiasts who are interested in exploring mobile-based tangible interactions. Participants must have experience developing with Android SDK, HTML5, and JavaScript. In addition, a basic understanding of gesture recognition and touch-based interaction approaches is useful. Participants are expected to bring their own laptops for development. Full details found on the dedicated tutorial webpage.
Abstract
Accepted Interactive Tutorials
Mobile Health – Beyond Consumer Apps
Date: Tuesday, September 23
Location: Studio B
Time: 9:00-12:00
Organizers: Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Prerequisite/requirements:: None. Participants with interest in the topic are welcome, regardless of their domain or background.
Abstract
Consumer based mHealth apps typically allow people to do old things in new ways, such as recording health measures digitally rather than on paper. We see this also with medical apps, where increases in the quality and efficiency of existing health care models provide clinical staff with digital tools that replace paper based documentation. In rare and exciting cases we are also seeing mHealth applications that are doing things in entirely new ways to drive real innovation in health care delivery through mobile devices.
The aim of the tutorial is to highlight real world, high impact mobile research that is relevant to the key discipline of Mobile HCI. Thus, the tutorial will be application rather than academically focused. The tutorial will highlight the wide range of mHealth applications available that go far beyond trackers and behavior change tools and encourage researchers to look beyond consumer applications in their research. Four key areas of mHealth applications will be covered including Apps for the HealthyWell, mHealth in Hospitals, Practice and Clinical Apps and Patient Apps and will cover applications for health assessment, treatment and triage, behavior change, chronic illness, mental health, adolescent health, rehabilitation and age care with a focus on the need for rigorous evaluation and efficacy analysis.
The interactive component of the tutorial will focus on innovation in mobile apps for health services. Groups will be given case studies, from real clinicians and hospitals gathered at CSIRO and will be required to design and pitch apps, and evaluation studies to validate their ideas.
Wearable Computing: A Human-centered View of Key Concepts, Application Domains, and Quality Factors
Date: Tuesday, September 23
Location: Studio E
Time: 14:00-17:00
Organizers: Vivian Genaro Motti, Spencer Kohn and Kelly Caine, Clemson University
Prerequisite/requirements:: None. Participants with interest in the topic are welcome, regardless of their domain or background.
Abstract
Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities
Date: Tuesday, September 23
Location: Studio B
Time: 14:00-17:00
Organizers: Cosmin Munteanu, National Research Council Canada & Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
Prerequisite/requirements: : Participants are asked to bring their mobile phones with them. Participants with interest in the topic are welcome, regardless of their domain or background.
Abstract
The goal of this course is to inform the MobileHCI community of the current state of speech and natural language research, to dispel some of the myths surrounding speech-based interaction, as well as to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to learn more about how speech recognition and speech synthesis work, what are their limitations, and how they could be used to enhance current interaction paradigms. This highly-interactive tutorial will blend the introduction of theoretical concepts with illustration of design challenges through audio and video examples, as well as two hands-on activities (there are no technical prerequisites for these, although bringing an iPhone/iPad/Android device is recommended). Through this, we hope that Mobile HCI researchers and practitioners will learn how to combine recent advances in speech processing with user-centred principles in designing more usable and useful speech-based interactive systems.
The tutorial will be beneficial to all MobileHCI attendees without a strong expertise in ASR or TTS, who still believe in fulfilling HCI’s goal of developing methods and systems that allow humans to naturally interact with the ever increasingly ubiquitous mobile technology, but are disappointed with the lack of success in using speech and natural language to achieve this goal.