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Ubiquitous Notification Mechanism to Provide User Awareness
(2016)
Awareness could be defined as the knowledge that the user has of a particular activity, either individual or collaborative. Good awareness mechanisms provide information to the user at the right time so that s/he can know ...
Supporting phobia treatment with virtual reality: systematic desensitization using oculus rift
(2017)
An irrational fear is called a phobia. Cognitive therapy teaches patients
how to respond to triggering stimuli, by relaxing their mind and entering a state of
reduced anxiety. Some of these methods depend on patient’s ...
Designing Tools that Allows Children in the Early Childhood to Program Robots
(2017)
This paper describes the design and evaluation process of two mobile programming assistance tools that allow children in the early childhood to develop programs and execute them using robots. The tools are called TITIBOTS ...
Web accessibility for people with reduced mobility: A case study using eye tracking
(2016)
Traditional web interfaces often rely on keyboard/mouse input to work. This characteristic forces people with reduced mobility to adapt or do not use the applications at all. This paper proposes a prototype to increase web ...
Development and Evaluation of Augmented Object Prototypes for Notifications in Collaborative Writing Environments
(2016)
In Ubiquitous Computing, augmented objects refer to those elements of
the real world which have been provided with computational capabilities to meet a
specific need. Meanwhile, Collaborative Writing Environments (CWE) ...
A Gesture-Based Interaction Approach for Manipulating Augmented Objects Using Leap Motion
(2015-11)
Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing are carrying the world to a reality where almost every object interacts with the environment, either via sensors or actuators, and users must learn how to interact with such ...
NAO as a Copresenter in a Robotics Workshop - Participant’s Feedback on the Engagement Level Achieved with a Robot in the Classroom
(2019)
Robotics, combined with computer science and human-centered studies, can have a substantial impact in areas such as education and innovation. Robots have proven to be a good tool to gain and maintain users’ involvement in ...
Alexa vs. Siri vs. Cortana vs. Google Assistant: A Comparison of Speech-Based Natural User Interfaces
(2017-07-17)
Natural User Interfaces (NUI) are supposed to be used by humans in a very logic way. However, the run to deploy Speech-based NUIs by the industry has had a large impact on the naturality of such interfaces. This paper ...
Exploratory Analysis of Research Publications on Robotics in Costa Rica Main Public Universities
(2021)
The article presents the main robotic trends linked to the publications of the institutional repositories of the five main Costa Rican public universities: Tecnológico de Costa Rica, University of Costa Rica, National ...