The usefulness of mobile devices has increased greatly in recent years allowing users to
perform more tasks in a mobile context. This increase in usefulness has come at the …

Increasing amount of online music content has opened new opportunities for implementing
new effective information access services–commonly known as music recommender …

The importance of contextual information has been recognized by researchers and
practitioners in many disciplines, including e-commerce personalization, information …

Upon publication almost 15 years ago, the first edition almost instantly became a trusted
reference, setting the stage for the coming decade, in which the explosion in research and …

While progress on assistive technologies have been made, some blind users still face
several problems opening and using basic functionalities when interacting with touch …

In this paper, we compare four different auditory displays in a mobile audio-augmented
reality environment (a sound garden). The auditory displays varied in the use of non-speech …

GPS navigation is commonplace in everyday life. While it has the capacity to make our lives
easier, it is often used to automate functions that were once exclusively performed by our …

In this article we describe a novel approach to pedestrian navigation using bearing-based
haptic feedback. People are guided in the general direction of their destination via vibration …

Music listening and navigation are both common tasks for mobile device users. In this study,
we integrated music listening with a navigation service, allowing users to follow the …

There is an agreement that perceived usability is important beyond actual effectiveness of
software systems. Perceived usability is often obtained by self-reports provided after system …