Engineering the User Interface [electronic resource] : From Research to Practice / edited by Miguel Redondo, Crescencio Bravo, Manuel Ortega.

Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for HCI Researchers -- Integrating Learning Processes Across Boundaries of Media, Time and Group Scale -- Optimal Cost Haptic Devices for Driving Simulators -- Interference of Auditory Information with Haptic Perception of Stiffness in Virtual Reality -- Towards Implicit Interaction in Ambient Intelligence through Information Mosaic Roles -- Towards the Achievement of Natural Interaction -- Science Learning in Blind Children through Audio-Based Games -- Towards the Introduction of Accessibility Resources in Public Telecentres -- Access Control Model for Collaborative Business Processes -- An Ontology to Model Collaborative Organizational Structures in CSCW Systems -- Semantic Web Query Authoring for End-Users -- A Methodological Approach for Building Multimodal Acted Affective Databases -- Audiovisual Analysis and Synthesis for Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces -- Creation and Evaluation of a Virtual and Collaborative Playground -- Presentation Adaptation: Results from a Case Study -- Improving a Zoom+Pan Interface with Overview+Detail or Focus+Context Features: A Comparative Evaluation -- aCaSo: A Card Sorting Management & Analysis Tool -- Intelligent User Interfaces: Past, Present and Future.

This book contains a selection of sixteen high-quality papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Interaccin Persona-Ordenador (IPO), which stands for Human-Computer Interaction in Spanish and was called Interaccin2006 for short). This conference took place in Puertollano (Ciudad Real, Spain) on November 13th-17th, 2006, and was organized by the CHICO research group from the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain). In its seventh edition this conference has become a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion and dissemination of novel research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The main goals of Interaccin2006 were threefold: to spread innovative research and promote discussion on HCI; to put in contact research groups from all over the world, mainly Spanish-speaking groups and the most authoritative researchers in the field; and to enrich the relationship between academia and industry in all the topics related to HCI. This volume is organized according to the main areas of both basic and applied research that were presented at the conference: Ergonomics and Human Factors, Usability and Accessibility, Ambient Intelligence and Context-aware Systems, User-Centred Design, Systems and Models for Collaborative Work, HCI in e-Learning, User Interface Design and Development, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Multi-modal Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing Devices and Applications, HCI for People with Special Needs. The primary audience of this book includes, but it is not limited to, researchers and practitioners in HCI, developers and users of HCI systems, and institutions involved in the development and standardization of HCI technologies.

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