The fourth ACM SIGCHI Symposium on

Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Increasing Kinect Application Development Productivity by an Enhanced Hardware Abstraction: Bernardo Reis, João Marcelo Teixeira, Felipe Breyer, Luis Arthur Vasconcelos, Aline Cavalcanti, André Ferreira and Judith Kelner (Federal University of Pernambuco)
Fusion in Multimodal Interactive Systems: An HMM-Based Algorithm for User-Induced Adaptation: Bruno Dumas, Beat Signer (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) and Denis Lalanne (University of Fribourg)
User Interface Engineering for Software Product Lines – The Dilemma between Automation and Usability: Andreas Pleuss (University of Limerick), Benedikt Hauptmann (Technische Universität München), Deepak Dhungana (Siemens AG Austria), Goetz Botterweck (University of Limerick)

Autonomic Management of Multimodal Interaction: DynaMo in action: Pierre-Alain Avouac, Philippe Lalanda and Laurence Nigay (University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1)
A Logical Framework for Multi-Device User Interfaces: Fabio Paternò and Carmen Santoro (CNR-ISTI)

PuReWidgets: A programming toolkit for interactive public display applications: Jorge Cardoso (Portuguese Catholic University) and Rui Jose (Universidade do Minho)
jQMultiTouch: Lightweight Toolkit and Development Framework for Multi-touch/Multi-device Web Interfaces: Michael Nebeling and Moira Norrie (ETH Zurich)
ToyVision: A Toolkit for Prototyping Tabletop Tangible Games: Javier Marco (University of Madeira), Eva Cerezo and Sandra Baldassarri (University of Zaragoza)

MyUI: Generating accessible user interfaces from multimodal design patterns: Matthias Peissner, Dagmar Häbe, Doris Janssen and Thomas Sellner (Fraunhofer IAO)
An Automated Layout Approach for Model-Driven WIMP-UI Generation: David Raneburger, Roman Popp (Vienna University of Technology) and Jean Vanderdonckt, (Université catholique de Louvain)
Systematic Generation of Abstract User Interfaces: Vi Tran, Jean Vanderdonckt (Université catholique de Louvain), Ricardo Tesoriero (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and François Beuvens (Université catholique de Louvain)

Engineering Animations in User Interfaces: Thomas Mirlacher (ruwido), Philippe Palanque (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3) and Regina Bernhaupt (ruwido)
Modelling User Manuals of Modal Medical Devices and Learning from the Experience: Judy Bowen and Steve Reeves (University of Waikato)
Formal Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Environments through the APEX Framework: José Luís Silva, José C. Campos (Universidade do Minho) and Michael Harrison, (Queen Mary University of London)

Collaborative Web Browsing: Multiple Users, Multiple Pages, Concurrent Access, One Display: Oliver Schmid, Agnes Lisowska Masson and Beat Hirsbrunner (University of Fribourg)
Weighted Faceted Browsing for Characteristics-Based Visualization Selection through End Users: Martin Voigt, Artur Werstler, Jan Polowinski and Klaus Meißner (TU Dresden)
Interactive Construction of Semantic Widgets for Visualizing Semantic Web Data: Timo Stegemann, Jürgen Ziegler, Tim Hussein and Werner Gaulke (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Extraction and Interactive Exploration of Knowledge from Aggregated News and Social Media Content: Arno Scharl, Alexander Hubmann-Haidvogel (MODUL University Vienna), Albert Weichselbraun (University of Applied Sciences Chur), Gerhard Wohlgenannt (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Heinz-Peter Lang and Marta Sabou (MODUL University Vienna)

Specifying and Running Rich Graphical Components with Loa: Olivier Beaudoux, Mickael Clavreul (ESEO TRAME Team), Arnaud Blouin, (INRIA/IRISA Triskell Team), Mengqiang Yang (ESEO TRAME Team), Olivier Barais and Jean-Marc Jezequel (INRIA/IRISA Triskell Team)
Unify Localization using User Interface Description Languages and a Navigation Context-Aware Translation Tool: Michael Tschernuth, Michael Lettner and Rene Mayrhofer (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)
What can Model-Based UI Design offer to End-User Software Engineering?: Anke Dittmar (University of Rostock), Alfonso García Frey and Sophie Dupuy-Chessa (University of Grenoble)

Modeling Task Transitions to Help Designing for Better Situation Awareness: Thomas Villaren, Gilles Coppin (Télécom Bretagne) and Angélica Leal (Bertin Technologies)
Exploring Design Principles of Task Elicitation Systems for Unrestricted Natural Language Documents: Hendrik Meth, Alexander Maedche and Maximilian Einoeder (University of Mannheim)

Reusable Decision Space for Mashup Tool Design: Saeed Aghaee, Marcin Nowak and Cesare Pautasso (University of Lugano (USI))
The Design of a Hardware-software Platform for Long-term Energy Eco-feedback Research: Lucas Pereira, Filipe Quintal (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute), Nuno Nunes (University of Madeira) and Mario Berges (Carnegie Mellon University)
Considerations for computerized in situ data collection platforms: Nikolaos Batalas and Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Fear Therapy for Children – A Mobile Approach: Marco de Sá (Yahoo! Research) and Luis Carriço (University of Lisbon)
Using Ontologies to Reason About the Usability of Interactive Medical Devices in Multiple Situations of Use: Judy Bowen and Annika Hinze (University of Waikato)