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View article: Designing Intelligent Voice Assistants for Older Adults' Collaborative Care: Exploring Supportive and Non-Supportive Interactions
Designing Intelligent Voice Assistants for Older Adults' Collaborative Care: Exploring Supportive and Non-Supportive Interactions Open
Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) have the potential to facilitate health information tasks among older adults and caregivers. However, when adopting these tools, older adults face a significant challenge balancing needs for support vers…
View article: Guiding Empowerment Model: Liberating Neurodiversity in Online Higher Education
Guiding Empowerment Model: Liberating Neurodiversity in Online Higher Education Open
In this innovative practice full paper, we address the equity gap for neurodivergent and situationally limited learners by identifying the spectrum of dynamic factors that impact learning and function. Educators have shown a growing intere…
View article: What Do We Do? Lessons Learned from Conducting Systematic Reviews to Improve HCI Dissemination
What Do We Do? Lessons Learned from Conducting Systematic Reviews to Improve HCI Dissemination Open
Systematic reviews are essential in helping researchers address pre-defined research questions through explicit, methodical, and reproducible techniques for identifying studies and comprehensively synthesizing their findings. We highlight …
View article: Scribe
Scribe Open
During doctor's visits, the medical conversations shared often contain essential instructions and tailored advice necessary for daily care, particularly among older adults who manage chronic illnesses. However, some older adult patients fa…
View article: Textflow: Screenless Access to Non-Visual Smart Messaging
Textflow: Screenless Access to Non-Visual Smart Messaging Open
Texting relies on screen-centric prompts designed for sighted users, still posing significant barriers to people who are blind and visually impaired (BVI). Can we re-imagine texting untethered from a visual display? In an interview study, …
View article: Creative sketching partner
Creative sketching partner Open
The creative sketching partner (CSP) is a proof of concept intelligent interface to inspire designers while sketching in response to a specified design task. With this interactive system we are studying the effect of an AI model of visual …
View article: Deep Learning in a Computational Model for Conceptual Shifts in a Co-Creative Design System
Deep Learning in a Computational Model for Conceptual Shifts in a Co-Creative Design System Open
This paper presents a computational model for conceptual shifts, based on a novelty metric applied to a vector representation generated through deep learning. This model is integrated into a co-creative design system, which enables a partn…
View article: Relating Cognitive Models of Design Creativity to the Similarity of Sketches Generated by an AI Partner
Relating Cognitive Models of Design Creativity to the Similarity of Sketches Generated by an AI Partner Open
This paper presents and evaluates a new method for inspiring creativity in a co-creative design system. The method uses a computational model of aconceptual shift based on clustering of deep features from a database of sketches. The co-cre…
View article: Evaluating Creativity in Computational Co-Creative Systems
Evaluating Creativity in Computational Co-Creative Systems Open
This paper provides a framework for evaluating creativity in co-creative systems: those that involve computer programs collaborating with human users on creative tasks. We situate co-creative systems within a broader context of computation…
View article: Deep Learning for Identifying Potential Conceptual Shifts for Co-creative Drawing
Deep Learning for Identifying Potential Conceptual Shifts for Co-creative Drawing Open
We present a system for identifying conceptual shifts between visual categories, which will form the basis for a co-creative drawing system to help users draw more creative sketches. The system recognizes human sketches and matches them to…