BCS HCI 2004: Leeds, UK

Sally Fincher, Panos Markopoulos, David J. Moore, Roy A. Ruddle (Eds.): People and Computers XVIII - Design for Life, Proceedings of HCI 2004, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 6-10 September 2004. Springer 2004, ISBN 1-85233-900-4

Collaboration at work and play

Jennifer G. Sheridan, Alan J. Dix, Simon Lock, Alice Bayliss: Understanding Interaction in Ubiquitous Guerrilla Performances in Playful Arenas. 3-18
Rahat Iqbal, Anne E. James: Towards the Development of CSCW: An Ethnographic Approach. 19-34
Christian Heide Damm, Klaus Marius Hansen: An Evaluation of Workspace Awareness in Collaborative, Gesture-based Diagramming Tools. 35-50

Layers

Wael Aboelsaadat, Ravin Balakrishnan: An Empirical Comparison of Transparency on One and Two Layer Displays. 53-68
James Allan Hudson, Alan J. Dix, Alan Parkes: User Interface Overloading: A Novel Approach for Handheld Device Text Input. 69-86

What is interaction for?

Bob Fields, Suzette Keith, Ann Blandford: Designing for Expert Information Finding Strategies. 89-102
Andy Dearden, Chiu M. Lo: Supporting User Decisions in Travel and Tourism. 103-116
Stephen Boyd Davis, Christina Carini: Constructing a Player- Centred Definition of Fun for Video Games Design. 117-132

Cradle to Grave

Janet C. Read, Stuart MacFarlane, Matthew Horton: The Usability of Handwriting Recognition for Writing in the Primary Classroom. 135-150
Atif Waraich, Gareth Wilson: BMX Bandits: The Design of an Educational Computer Game for Disaffected Youth. 151-164
Jay Lundell, Margaret E. Morris: Tales, Tours, Tools, and Troupes: A Tiered Research Method to Inform Ubiquitous Designs for the Elderly. 165-178

Designs for Lives

Bengt Göransson: The Re-design of a PDA-based System for Supporting People with Parkinson's Disease. 181-196
Michael Grimsley, Anthony Meehan, Anna Tan: Designing for Social Inclusion: Computer Mediation of Trust Relations Between Citizens and Public Service Providers. 197-210
Jonas Kuschel, Fredrik Ljungberg: Decentralized Remote Diagnostics: A Study of Diagnostics in the Marine Industry. 211-226

Searching, searching, searching

Simon Holland: A First Empirical Study of Direct Combination in a Ubiquitous Environment. 229-248
John D. McCarthy, Martina Angela Sasse, Jens Riegelsberger: The Geometry of Web Search. 249-262
Chris Pilgrim, Ying K. Leung, Gitte Lindgaard: Supplemental Navigation Tools for Website Navigation - A Comparison of User Expectations and Current Practice. 263-296

Papers in context

Caroline Appert, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Wendy E. Mackay: Context matters: Evaluating Interaction Techniques with the CIS Model. 279-296
Chris Roast, Andy Dearden, Babak Khazaei: Enhancing Contextual Analysis to Support the Design of Development Tools. 297-314
Christophe Jacquet, Yolaine Bourda, Yacine Bellik: A Context-aware Locomotion Assistance Device for the Blind. 315-328

Interaction Behaviour

Mathilde M. Bekker, Wolmet Barendregt, Silvia Crombeen, Mari'lle Biesheuvel: Evaluating Usability and Challenge during Initial and Extended Use of Children's Computer Games. 331-346
Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Oscar de Bruijn, Brian Gault, Terrence Fernando, Kevin Tan: Comparing Interaction in the Real World and CAVE VirtualEnvironments. 347-362
Alex Poole, Linden J. Ball, Peter Phillips: In Search of Salience: A Response-time and Eye-movement Analysis of Bookmark Recognition. 363-378