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View article: A Human-Centered Multiperspective and Interactive Visual Tool For Explainable Machine Learning
A Human-Centered Multiperspective and Interactive Visual Tool For Explainable Machine Learning Open
Understanding why a trained machine learning model makes some decisions is paramount to trusting the model and applying its recommendations in real-world applications. In this article, we present the design and development of an interactiv…
View article: Extensibility Analysis of Game Engines for Building Simplified Game Development Interfaces
Extensibility Analysis of Game Engines for Building Simplified Game Development Interfaces Open
Creating video games requires a multidisciplinary team and specialized tools for graphics and interaction mechanisms. While games are valuable educational tools, game engines are often too complex for non-programmers. Simplified design too…
View article: Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review
Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review Open
Background Individuals with hearing impairments may face hindrances in health care assistance, which may significantly impact the prognosis and the incidence of complications and iatrogenic events. Therefore, the development of automatic c…
View article: Identifying Challenges for Elementary School Teachers in Building Digital Games through a Workshop
Identifying Challenges for Elementary School Teachers in Building Digital Games through a Workshop Open
To develop technologies that facilitate the creation and customization of digital educational games, this research aimed to explore the use of a game authoring tool by elementary school teachers and to identify the challenges and skills of…
View article: A User Evaluation of a Collaborator Recommender based on Co-Changed Files
A User Evaluation of a Collaborator Recommender based on Co-Changed Files Open
Active collaboration is essential for the success of software projects across the development life-cycle. Unfortunately, in social coding platforms, such as GitHub, it is still challenging for developers to identify potential collaborators…
View article: An Analysis of the Evaluation Methods being Applied to Serious Games for Autistic Children
An Analysis of the Evaluation Methods being Applied to Serious Games for Autistic Children Open
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopment condition that significantly impacts social communication and interaction as well as behavior impairments, including restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. I…
View article: Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint)
Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Individuals with hearing impairments may face hindrances in health care assistance, which may significantly impact the prognosis and the incidence of complications and iatrogenic events. Therefore, the development of automatic …
View article: Lessons Learned from Modeling the Interaction with Conversational Agents
Lessons Learned from Modeling the Interaction with Conversational Agents Open
Intelligent conversational agents have become widespread. Inspired by conversations in natural language, they present different degrees of intelligence and autonomy, bringing challenges for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). One such challe…
View article: Evaluating User Experience With a Chatbot Designed as a Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Mixed Methods Study
Evaluating User Experience With a Chatbot Designed as a Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Mixed Methods Study Open
Background The potential of chatbots for screening and monitoring COVID-19 was envisioned since the outbreak of the disease. Chatbots can help disseminate up-to-date and trustworthy information, promote healthy social behavior, and support…
View article: Editorial Introduction - Supporting Group Work
Editorial Introduction - Supporting Group Work Open
Explorations into groupwork research have expanded over the years to encompass broader themes like human-centered computing, human-computer interaction, social computing, and human- centered data science, and other related contexts. Like t…
View article: Contrasting Explain-ML with Interpretability Machine Learning Tools in Light of Interactive Machine Learning Principles
Contrasting Explain-ML with Interpretability Machine Learning Tools in Light of Interactive Machine Learning Principles Open
The way Complex Machine Learning (ML) models generate their results is not fully understood, including by very knowledgeable users. If users cannot interpret or trust the predictions generated by the model, they will not use them. Furtherm…
View article: Evaluating User Experience With a Chatbot Designed as a Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)
Evaluating User Experience With a Chatbot Designed as a Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND The potential of chatbots for screening and monitoring COVID-19 was envisioned since the outbreak of the disease. Chatbots can help disseminate up-to-date and trustworthy information, promote healthy social behavior, and suppor…
View article: Synchronous Teleconsultation and Monitoring Service Targeting COVID-19: Leveraging Insights for Postpandemic Health Care
Synchronous Teleconsultation and Monitoring Service Targeting COVID-19: Leveraging Insights for Postpandemic Health Care Open
Background Although a great number of teleconsultation services have been developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, studies assessing usability and health care provider satisfaction are still incipient. Objective This study aimed to describe…
View article: Synchronous teleconsultation and monitoring service targeting COVID-19: leveraging insights for post-pandemic healthcare (Preprint)
Synchronous teleconsultation and monitoring service targeting COVID-19: leveraging insights for post-pandemic healthcare (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Although a great number of teleconsultation services have been developed during COVID-19 pandemic, studies assessing usability and healthcare provider satisfaction are still incipient. OBJECTIVE To describe the development, i…
View article: Chatbot as a Telehealth Intervention Strategy in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chatbot as a Telehealth Intervention Strategy in the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing have created a demand for new and innovative solutions in healthcare systems worldwide. One of the strategies that have been implemented are chatbots, which can be helpful in providi…
View article: Exploring Young Adults’ Understanding and Experience with a Digital Legacy Management System
Exploring Young Adults’ Understanding and Experience with a Digital Legacy Management System Open
The current society produces and consumes large amounts of digital content, especially young people. Each person accumulates throughout their lives a set of digital items that will constitute their own digital legacy. Recently, a number of…
View article: Guest Editorial Foreword to the Special Issue of IHC 2018
Guest Editorial Foreword to the Special Issue of IHC 2018 Open
This special issue of JIS presents the extended versions of the best full papers of the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC 2018). For this issue, the seven papers selected as best papers from the 42 presented at…
View article: Development of a Virtual Reality-Based Game Approach for Supporting Sensory Processing Disorders Treatment
Development of a Virtual Reality-Based Game Approach for Supporting Sensory Processing Disorders Treatment Open
Serious games for health are those that are not aimed solely at entertainment, but rather at supporting health treatments. In this paper, we develop and assess the proposal of a Virtual Reality (VR) game aimed at supporting Sensory Process…
View article: Chatbots Explain Themselves: Designers' Strategies for Conveying Chatbot Features to Users
Chatbots Explain Themselves: Designers' Strategies for Conveying Chatbot Features to Users Open
Recently, text-based chatbots had a rise in popularity, possibly due to new APIs for online social networks and messenger services, and development platforms that help dealing with all the necessary Natural Language Processing. But, as cha…
View article: Social Responsibility and Ethics: A 20 Year Retrospective
Social Responsibility and Ethics: A 20 Year Retrospective Open
It has been 20 years since we have organized the first edition of IHC in 1998. So much has changed regarding not only technology, but also how it is inserted in our society. During this time, technology and people´s interaction with it hav…
View article: Analyzing the Communicability of Configuration Decision Space Over Time in Collaborative Systems through a Case Study
Analyzing the Communicability of Configuration Decision Space Over Time in Collaborative Systems through a Case Study Open
Some configuration settings have immediate impact on system state; others have impact over time. In collaborative systems, the timeline of impacts can be even more complex, because changes may impact not only the user who made them but als…
View article: Combining Configurable Interaction Anticipation Challenges and Volitional Aspects in the Analysis of Digital Posthumous Communication Systems
Combining Configurable Interaction Anticipation Challenges and Volitional Aspects in the Analysis of Digital Posthumous Communication Systems Open
Digital posthumous communication systems are those that allow users to create messages that will only be sent to the intended recipients after their deaths. In these systems users have to express their wishes through configuration settings…