Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "user study"
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Bridging Private and Shared Interaction Surfaces in Collocated Groupware
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Multi-display environments (such as the pairing of a digital tabletop computer with a set of handheld tablet computers) can support collocated interaction in groups by providing individuals with private workspaces that can ... -
Cyberheroes: The Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Ebook to Educate Children about Online Privacy
(Elsevier, 2017-07)We designed an educational interactive ebook called Cyberheroes and evaluated it to assess its effectiveness at increasing children’s online privacy knowledge and behaviour, and supporting child-parent privacy-related ... -
Evaluating the Ability of Commercial Search Engines to Help People Answer Health Questions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-18)The act of seeking information pertaining to medical treatments and self-diagnosis is one of the applications of search engines. However online documents and websites offer convenience and efficiency in accessing information, ... -
Exploring Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Needs in Shared Decision Making: A Qualitative User Needs Study
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-29)Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory debilitating joint condition with individualized symptom severity. Access to multiple medication choices allow consideration of patient preferences and fit ... -
Measuring Haptic Experience: Elaborating the HX model with scale development
(IEEE, 2021-07-06)Designers increasingly employ haptic feedback with the aim to improve user experience (UX). Designers and researchers currently use qualitative methods or demos for feedback, but neither approach scales to large studies ... -
User-specific explanations of AI systems attuned to psychological profiles: a user study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)In this thesis, we design a model aimed at supporting user-specific explanations from AI systems and present the results of a user study conducted to determine whether the algorithms used to attune the output to the user ...