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The Positive and Negative Influence of Search Results on People's Decisions about the Efficacy of Medical Treatments
(ACM, 2017-10-01)
People regularly use web search engines to investigate the efficacy of medical treatments. Search results can contain documents that present incorrect information that contradicts current established medical understanding ...
Heat Transfer Analysis Of Windows With Venetian Blinds: A Comparative Study
(2007-06)
The potential to reduce building load and annual energy consumption is widely recognized in the use of shading devices to control solar gain. Consequently, the ability to include and model shading layers in complex glazing ...
Increasing Passersby Engagement with Public Large Interactive Displays: A Study of Proxemics and Conation
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-11-19)
Prior research has shown that large interactive displays de- ployed in public spaces are often underutilized, or even un- noticed, phenomena connected to ‘interaction’ and ‘display blindness’, respectively. To better ...
An Examination of Keyes Universal Chart: 50 Years Later
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2016-01)
From the late 1940's to the late 1960's, significant efforts were made by ASHVE and then ASHRAE to evaluate and quantify the impact of window shading. In the context of the now defunct Shading Coefficient, well known ...
Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-04-21)
Persuasive gameful systems are effective tools for motivating behaviour change. Research has shown that tailoring these systems to individuals can increase their efficacy; however, there is little knowledge on how to ...
Understanding Undergraduate Engineering Student Information Access and Needs: Results from a Scoping Review
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-06-16)
To the authors knowledge this is the first review to examine the current body of research
on how engineering students access, use, and understand information; identify gaps in the
literature, and how this can be used to ...
Investigating the Impact of Cooperative Communication Mechanics on Player Performance in Portal 2
(Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, 2016-06)
Cooperative communication mechanics, such as avatar gestures or in-game visual pointers, enable player collaboration directly through gameplay. We currently lack a deeper understanding of how players use cooperative ...
"The Collecting Itself Feels Good": Towards Collection Interfaces for Digital Game Objects
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-10-16)
Digital games offer a variety of collectible objects. We investigate players' collecting behaviors in digital games to determine what digital game objects players enjoyed collecting and why they valued these objects. Using ...
Design and Preliminary Validation of The Player Experience Inventory
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-10-16)
We present the design and preliminary results of the validation of the Player Experience Inventory (PXI). Based on the input of 64 experts in the field of player-computer interaction, we designed and refined this new scale. ...
Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015-10)
Serious and persuasive games and gamified interactions have become popular in the last years, especially in the realm of behavior change support systems. They have been used as tools to support and influence human behavior ...