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Prevalence and diversity of antifungal resistance in <i>Fusarium</i> isolates across clinical and agricultural settings in the United States Open

Emilie Applebach, Kincer Amburgey-Crovetti, Wayne L. Bakotic, Tika B. Adhikari, Nathan P. Wiederhold , et al. · 2025

Disseminated fusariosis and chronic superficial fusariosis require effective strategies to control fungal growth and prevent systemic spread. This study presents an updated, comprehensive analysis of antifungal susceptibility in 174 Fusari…

Printegrated Circuits: Personal Fabrication of 3D Printed Devices with Embedded PCBs Open

Oliver Child, Ollie Hanton, J. Dawson, Steve Hodges, Mike Fraser · 2025

Consumer-level multi-material 3D printing with conductive thermoplastics enables fabrication of interactive elements for bespoke tangible devices. However, large feature sizes, high resistance materials, and limitations of printable contro…

LogicGlue: Hardware-Independent Embedded Programming Through Platform-Independent Drivers Open

Mannu Lambrichts, Raf Ramakers, Steve Hodges · 2025

The growing capabilities of microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators, coupled with decreasing costs, have led to a proliferation of embedded interactive systems. Prototyping such electronic systems has become democratized across a broad au…

Making Hardware Devices at Scale is Still Hard: Challenges and Opportunities for the HCI Community. Open

Bo Ra Kang, Steve Hodges, Per Ola Kristensson · 2025

Toolkit for Educators of Data Science: Using Physical Computing to Support Data Science Education in the Classroom Open

Lorraine Underwood, Liz Edwards, Elisa Rubegni, Steve Hodges, John Vidler , et al. · 2025

Surgical repair of extensive penile shaft skin injuries following neonatal circumcision Open

Randy Casals, Tyler Overholt, Steve Hodges, Marc Colaco · 2024

Circumcision is a common procedure performed since ancient times with an excellent safety profile and potential health benefits. In the United States, it is commonly performed in the neonatal period using devices such as the Gomco, Mogen, …

Jacdac: Service-Based Prototyping of Embedded Systems Open

Thomas S. Ball, Peli de Halleux, James Devine, Steve Hodges, Michał Moskal · 2024

The traditional approach to programming embedded systems is monolithic: firmware on a microcontroller contains both application code and the drivers needed to communicate with sensors and actuators, using low-level protocols such as I2C, S…

Introduction to the Seventh Annual Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC'24 Open

Cathal Gurrin, Liting Zhou, Graham Healy, Werner Bailer, Duc‐Tien Dang‐Nguyen , et al. · 2024

For the seventh time since 2018, the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) benchmarked interactive lifelog search systems in a live challenge. The LSC goal is to comparatively evaluate system capabilities to access large multimodal lifelogs compr…

Co-designing new keyboard and mouse solutions with people living with motor impairments Open

Rodolfo Cossovich, Steve Hodges, Jin Kang, Audrey Girouard · 2023

In this report we share a co-design process for developing more accessible alternatives to traditional keyboard and mouse interfaces, involving individuals with motor impairments. We describe our methodology, including initial discovery ph…

AdHocProx: Sensing Mobile, Ad-Hoc Collaborative Device Formations using Dual Ultra-Wideband Radios Open

Richard Li, Teddy Seyed, Nicolai Marquardt, Eyal Ofek, Steve Hodges , et al. · 2023

We present AdHocProx, a system that uses device-relative, inside-out sensing to augment co-located collaboration across multiple devices, without recourse to externally-anchored beacons – or even reliance on WiFi connectivity.

5-axis multi-material 3D printing of curved electrical traces Open

Freddie Hong, Borut Lampret, Connor Myant, Steve Hodges, David Boyle · 2023

Prototyping three-dimensional (3D) printed electronics via material extrusion (MEX) has become popular in recent years with the increased availability of commercial conductive filaments. However, the current planar 3D printing method of la…

PSST: Enabling Blind or Visually Impaired Developers to Author Sonifications of Streaming Sensor Data Open

Venkatesh Potluri, J. Thompson, James Devine, Bongshin Lee, Nora Morsi , et al. · 2022

We present the first toolkit that equips blind and visually impaired (BVI) developers with the tools to create accessible data displays. Called PSST (Physical computing Streaming Sensor data Toolkit), it enables BVI developers to understan…

Open5x: Accessible 5-axis 3D printing and conformal slicing Open

Freddie Hong, Steve Hodges, Connor Myant, David Boyle · 2022

The common layer-by-layer deposition of regular, 3-axis 3D printing simplifies both the fabrication process and the 3D printer's mechanical design. However, the resulting 3D printed objects have some unfavourable characteristics including …

LaserFactory: A Laser Cutter-based Electromechanical Assembly and Fabrication Platform to Make Functional Devices & Robots Open

Martin Nisser, Christina Chen Liao, Yuchen Chai, Aradhana Adhikari, Steve Hodges , et al. · 2021

LaserFactory is an integrated fabrication process that augments a commercially available fabrication machine to support the manufacture of fully functioning devices without human intervention. In addition to creating 2D and 3D mechanical s…

SelfSustainableCHI: Self-Powered Sustainable Interfaces and Interactions Open

Yogesh Kumar Meena, Xing-Dong Yang, Markus Löchtefeld, Matthew J. Carnie, Niels Henze , et al. · 2020

The continued proliferation of computing devices comes with an ever-increasing energy requirement, both during production and use. As awareness of the global climate emergency increases, self-powered and sustainable (SelfSustainable) inter…

Beyond the Prototype: Understanding the Challenge of Scaling Hardware Device Production Open

Rushil Khurana, Steve Hodges · 2020

The hardware research and development communities have invested heavily in tools and materials that facilitate the design and prototyping of electronic devices. Numerous easy-to-access and easy-to-use tools have streamlined the prototyping…

MakeCode and CODAL: Intuitive and efficient embedded systems programming for education Open

James Devine, Joe Finney, Peli de Halleux, Michał Moskal, Thomas Ball , et al. · 2019

Historically, embedded systems development has been a specialist skill, requiring knowledge of low-level programming languages, complex compilation toolchains, and specialist hardware, firmware, device drivers and applications. However, it…

Communication Challenges in the IoT Open

Mi Zhang, Xiaofan Jiang, Steve Hodges · 2019

The articles in this special section focus on communication challenges in the Internet of Things industry. The computing industry has seen several "waves:" major shifts in the design of computing systems, coupled with changes in how, when …

MakeCode and CODAL: intuitive and efficient embedded systems programming for education Open

James Devine, Joe Finney, Peli de Halleux, Michał Moskal, Thomas Ball , et al. · 2018

Across the globe, it is now commonplace for educators to engage in the making (design and development) of embedded systems in the classroom to motivate and excite their students. This new domain brings its own set of unique requirements. H…

MakeCode and CODAL: intuitive and efficient embedded systems programming for education Open

James Devine, Joe Finney, Peli de Halleux, Michał Moskal, Thomas Ball , et al. · 2018

Across the globe, it is now commonplace for educators to engage in the making (design and development) of embedded systems in the classroom to motivate and excite their students. This new domain brings its own set of unique requirements. H…

Makecode And Codal: Intuitive And Efficient Embedded Systems Programming For Education (Artifact Evaluation) Open

James Devine, Joe Finney, Peli de Halleux, Michał Moskal, Thomas Ball , et al. · 2018

This artifact allows others to reproduce the results seen in this paper for MakeCode and CODAL, using the BBC micro:bit. The artifact contains an offline build environment for CODAL and MakeCode, allowing evaluators to test and build progr…

Makecode And Codal: Intuitive And Efficient Embedded Systems Programming For Education (Artifact Evaluation) Open

James Devine, Joe Finney, Peli de Halleux, Michał Moskal, Thomas Ball , et al. · 2018

This artifact allows others to reproduce the results seen in this paper for MakeCode and CODAL, using the BBC micro:bit. The artifact contains an offline build environment for CODAL and MakeCode, allowing evaluators to test and build progr…

Programming the World Open

Michael Beigl, Florian Michahelles, Hide Tokuda, Steve Hodges · 2017

Computing evolution has brought about multiple paradigm shifts in how we use technologies. In the living laboratory that is modern life, our ability to design and control the computers and computing power of the future will require an abil…

"Creating Cool Stuff" Open

Sue Sentance, Jane Waite, Steve Hodges, Emily MacLeod, Lucy Yeomans · 2017

The recent introduction of computer science (CS) education into schools in many countries has led to a surge in interest in programming tools and approaches which make CS concepts and tasks engaging, motivating and accessible to all. There…

Expressy Open

Gerard Wilkinson, Ahmed Kharrufa, Jonathan Hook, Bradley Pursglove, Gavin Wood , et al. · 2016

Expressiveness, which we define as the extent to which rich and complex intent can be conveyed through action, is a vital aspect of many human interactions. For instance, paint on canvas is said to be an expressive medium, because it affor…

Using IMUs to Identify Supervisors on Touch Devices Open

Ahmed Kharrufa, James Nicholson, Paul Dunphy, Steve Hodges, Pam Briggs , et al. · 2015

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