Video-based communication has become a common way of interacting with remote
interlocutors, whether through complex videoconferencing systems or webcams integrated …

Published research on smart homes and their users is growing exponentially, yet a clear
understanding of who these users are and how they might use smart home technologies is …

Abstract Models of perceived affective quality of soundscapes have been recently included
into standards to guide the measurement and improvement of urban soundscapes. Such …

As researchers and industry alike are proposing TV interfaces that use gestures in their
designs, understanding users' preferences for gesture commands becomes an important …

Television viewers interacting with second screens has become a common sight in the
modern living room. Such activities are a mixture of related, semi-related, and non-related …

It has long been recognized that novelty effects exist in the interaction with technologies.
Despite this recognition, we still know little about the novelty effects associated with …

Smart home systems change the way we experience the home. While there are established
research fields within HCI for visualizing specific use cases of a smart home, studies …

We present insights from a gesture elicitation study in the context of interacting with TV,
during which 18 participants contributed and rated the execution difficulty and recall …

Smart home systems are becoming an integral feature of the emerging home IT market.
Under this general term, products mainly address issues of security, energy savings and …

One of the great societal challenges that we face today concerns the move to more
sustainable patterns of energy consumption, reflecting the need to balance both individual …