Beryl Plimmer
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» 2009 «
Downs, John and Plimmer, Beryl (2009): Evaluating non-interactive domestic situated SMS messaging. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 3709-3714. Available online
“We present our evaluation of our SMS-to-photo-frame messaging system in diverse households. We explored whether low-cost, non-interactive ambient displays were useful when applied to domestic messaging. We performed an ethnographic study with two different types of households, during which we analysed their usage of the system and conducted a series of interviews. We found that all households used the system to some degree, but that the social context and communication styles were distinctly different between households comprised of families and those with fictive kin. This highlights the importance of considering the household structure when designing domestic technology. Additionally, our preliminary study explored the minimum requirements for a useful messaging appliance for the home, particularly with respect to interactivity.”
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Chang, Samuel Hsiao-Heng, Stuart, Lachlan, Plimmer, Beryl and Wünsche, Burkhard (2009): Origami simulator: a multi-touch experience. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 3889-3894. Available online
“We present a 3D origami simulator with multi-touch interaction. This is a preliminary exploration of manipulating 3D models with multi-touch. Following a user centered approach, we analyzed how people make paper origami models and mapped the common actions into two-touch gestures. The user study suggested that people enjoyed the simulator and think the techniques can be applied to other 3D modeling environments.”
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Wang, Tao and Plimmer, Beryl (2009): SmartList: exploring intelligent hand-written list support. In: Proceedings of CHINZ09, the ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapters International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2009. pp. 61-64. Available online
“Here we report on SmartList our prototype for exploring essential features for a handwritten list program. On a freeform list, a lot of information is encoded in the layout and non-text ink: currently there is no effective pen-based computer program to support this activity. Although modern handwriting recognizers can achieve good recognition accuracy, this is not sufficient to support list making. Our prototype and its evaluation are presented in this paper. We identify accurate ink recognition as an essential element for such intelligent pen-based systems.”
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» 2008 «
Plimmer, Beryl, Crossan, Andrew, Brewster, Stephen A. and Blagojevic, Rachel (2008): Multimodal collaborative handwriting training for visually-impaired people. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 393-402. Available online
“"McSig" is a multimodal teaching and learning environment for visually-impaired students to learn character shapes, handwriting and signatures collaboratively with their teachers. It combines haptic and audio output to realize the teacher's pen input in parallel non-visual modalities. McSig is intended for teaching visually-impaired children how to handwrite characters (and from that signatures), something that is very difficult without visual feedback. We conducted an evaluation with eight visually-impaired children with a pretest to assess their current skills with a set of character shapes, a training phase using McSig and then a post-test of the same character shapes to see if there were any improvements. The children could all use McSig and we saw significant improvements in the character shapes drawn, particularly by the completely blind children (many of whom could draw almost none of the characters before the test). In particular, the blind participants all expressed enjoyment and excitement about the system and using a computer to learn to handwrite.”
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Plimmer, Beryl and Hammond, Tracy (2008): Getting Started with Sketch Tools. In: Stapleton, Gem, Howse, John and Lee, John (eds.) Diagrams 2008 - Diagrammatic Representation and Inference - 5th International Conference September 19-21, 2008, Herrsching, Germany. pp. 9-12. Available online
Chang, Samuel Hsiao-Heng, Chen, Xiaofan, Priest, Richard Anthony and Plimmer, Beryl (2008): Issues of extending the user interface of integrated development environments. In: CHINZ08 - the ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapters International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2008. pp. 23-30. Available online
“The current level of extensibility of integrated development environments (IDEs) does not provide sufficient access to make modifications to their user interface components. This limits innovation in IDEs. This paper reviews the problems we have encountered and presents alternative ways to help developers achieve their goals of extending user interface components. Developers interested in extending existing applications will appreciate the information on likely problems and solutions with extensible architectures. Furthermore general suggestions for software architecture extensions to maximize extensibility are included.”
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Lee, Ken, Yang, Kyung Jean (Tyler), Plimmer, Beryl and Harrison, Michael (2008): Real-time anaesthesia diagnosis display system with multi-modal alarms. In: Proceedings of OZCHI08 - the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2008. pp. 303-306. Available online
“Fatal errors during anaesthesia administration are usually preventable human mistakes. It is difficult for anaesthetists to keep monitoring every physiological change and to detect clinically critical events during anaesthesia. Intelligent patient monitoring systems to assist anaesthetists are under investigation. These systems require a distinctive and unique way of conveying alerts and diagnostic information to the anaesthetist in busy and noisy operating theatres. We present here a functional prototype of a multi-modal (audio & visual) alarm system, MMAS.”
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Reid, Peter and Plimmer, Beryl (2008): A collaborative multimodal handwriting training environment for visually impaired students. In: Proceedings of OZCHI08 - the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2008. pp. 195-202. Available online
“The spatial motor skills used for handwriting are particularly difficult for visually impaired people to develop. These skills are required in order to sign an aesthetically pleasing and repeatable signature, which is often required for documents such as legal agreements and job applications. Our multimodal system with haptic guidance, sonification and tactile feedback is designed to assist when teaching visually impaired students to form letters, and eventually, a signature. As tactile technologies become commonplace, appearing even in mobile phones, our system may also provide useful insight into the use of nonvisual feedback for a variety of applications.”
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Blagojevic, Rachel, Plimmer, Beryl, Grundy, John C. and Wang, Yong (2008): Development of techniques for sketched diagram recognition. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 258-259. Available online
Plimmer, Beryl and Hammond, Tracy (2008): Workshop on Sketch tools for diagramming. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. p. 4. Available online
Yeung, Louise, Plimmer, Beryl, Lobb, Brenda and Elliffe, Douglas (2008): Effect of Fidelity in Diagram Presentation. In: Proceedings of the HCI08 Conference on People and Computers XXII 2008. pp. 35-44. Available online
“The visual fidelity (fidelity) of a design diagram affects perception and design performance. Hand-drawn diagrams are more effective working documents for early design tasks such as user interface designs than the equivalent computer-prepared formal representation. However people prefer more formal representations because they feel that hand-drawn diagrams look unprofessional. Sketch-based design tools make it possible to present partially tidied designs. We have postulated intermediary levels of visual fidelity in a systematic manner and implemented these levels into a sketch tool to evaluate the effect of computerization and fidelity on perception and design performance. Our findings show that: performance decreased systematically with increased fidelity; that computer presented designs decreases performance and that performance was decreased by computerization of the hand-drawn diagrams. In contrast, user satisfaction was higher with increasing levels of fidelity. These results pose challenges to the sketch tools community and further questions for effective computer support for early design.”
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McCord, Glenn, Wünsche, Burkhard, Plimmer, Beryl, Gilbert, Greg and Hirsch, Christian (2008): A Pen and Paper Metaphor for Orchid Modeling. In: Bobbitt, Russell, Connell, Jonathan H., Flickner, Myron, Haas, Norman, Hampapur, Arun, Harris, Dick, Kurtz, Charles, Lloyd, Bill, Otto, Charles, Pankanti, Sharath, Park, Unsang and Payne, Jason (eds.) Retail Vision-Based Self-checkout - Exploring Real Time Real Purpose General Vision System 2008. pp. 119-124.
» 2007 «
Plimmer, Beryl and Freeman, Isaac (2007): A Toolkit Approach to Sketched Diagram Recognition. In: Proceedings of the HCI07 Conference on People and Computers XXI 2007. p. 21. Available online
“Sketch-based tools provide a more human centered design environment than traditional widget-based computer design software. A number of sketch tools exist that support specific design tasks: however wider exploration of computer supported sketching is being hampered by the effort required to build the sketching software. Here we present a sketch tool framework, its implementation and evaluation. The implementation, InkKit, provides context free design spaces and a powerful, trainable and extensible modeless writing/drawing recognition engine. It reduces the development effort for a specific diagram type from thousands of lines of code to a few hundred. We evaluated our toolkit by asking fourth year computer science students to use InkKit to develop a diagram specific recognizer.”
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Plimmer, Beryl and Apperley, Mark (2007): Making paperless work. In: Proceedings of CHINZ07, the ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapters International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 1-4 July 2007, 2007, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 1-8. Available online
“Despite well documented advantages, attempts to go truly "paperless" seldom succeed. This is principally because computer-based paperless systems typically do not support all of the affordances of paper, nor the work process that have evolved with paper-based systems. We suggest that attention to users' work environments, activities and practices are critical to the success of paperless systems. This paper describes the development and effective utilization of a software tool for the paperless marking of student assignments which does not require users to compromise on established best practice. It includes a significant advance in the task management support.”
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Chik, Vincent, Plimmer, Beryl and Hosking, John (2007): Intelligent mind-mapping. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 195-198. Available online
“Current computer based mind-mapping tools are much slower to use than pen and paper because users are distracted by tool operations such as finding and arranging widgets. The shift in focus from brainstorming to tool management interrupts the rapid brainstorming process that mind maps are intended to support. Our pen based mind-mapping software that includes intelligent ink recognition, editing and export alleviates these intrusions as the user only has to worry about writing on the canvas, yet usual digital document support is provided. The digital ink recognition and manipulation techniques described here will be of interest to others working with informal documents.”
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Reid, Peter, Hallett-Hook, Fred, Plimmer, Beryl and Purchase, Helen C. (2007): Applying layout algorithms to hand-drawn graphs. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 203-206. Available online
“Hand-drawing a node-and-edge graph is a simple visual problem solving technique; however as the graph is built it can easily get untidy and confusing. It is more difficult to understand and interpret a confusing graph. By applying edge morphing techniques and a force-directed algorithm the hand-drawn graph can retain its informal appearance while its layout is improved. Graphs will be more readily understood, making the problem solving process easier.”
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Chen, Xiaofan and Plimmer, Beryl (2007): CodeAnnotator: digital ink annotation within Eclipse. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 211-214. Available online
“Programming environments do not support ink annotation. Yet, annotation is the most effective way to actively read and review a document. This paper describes a tool, CodeAnnotator, which integrates annotation support inside an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This tool is designed and developed to support direct annotation of program code with digital ink in the IDE. Programmers will benefit from a more intuitive interaction space to record notes and comments just as they would on paper documents.”
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Sreedharan, Sreeram, Zurita, Edmund S. and Plimmer, Beryl (2007): 3D input for 3D worlds. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 227-230. Available online
“Virtual Worlds present a 3D space to the user. However, input devices are typically 2D. This unnatural mapping reduces the engagement of the experience. We are exploring using Wii controllers to provide 3D gesture-based input to the 3D virtual world, Second Life. By evaluating its usability, we found that gesture-based interfaces are appealing and natural for hand gestures such as wave but difficult to map to facial expressions.”
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McCord, Glenn, Plimmer, Beryl and Wuensche, Burkhard (2007): Surface manipulation using a paper sculpture metaphor. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 235-238. Available online
“The creation of 3D computer models is essential for many applications in science, engineering and arts and is frequently performed by untrained users. However, creating an intuitive mapping between 2D input and 3D models is a non-trivial task and is reflected in the difficulty novices have in using current 3D modelling software. Using metaphors of paper sculpture and pen sketching, our gesture based modelling tool simplifies this interaction mapping. More intuitive object manipulation means that an otherwise complex model can be rapidly created by an inexperienced, non-artistic user. To demonstrate this, we have chosen to model orchid flowers as they offer considerable challenges to the artist due to their complexity of shape and detail, especially the petal surfaces which vary a great deal in curvature.”
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Yeung, Louise, Plimmer, Beryl, Lobb, Brenda and Elliffe, Douglas (2007): Levels of formality in diagram presentation. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 311-317. Available online
“The incremental beautification of hand-drawn diagrams is a process that is poorly understood. Thus implementation of beautification techniques in computer-based sketch tools is ad hoc, with most only supporting the ends of the spectrum: hand-drawn and fully formalized. Hand-drawn diagrams are more effective for early design and review but users are more satisfied with formal designs. This suggests that there may be applications for intermediate levels of formality. By understanding the attributes of visual formality it is possible to beautify a diagram progressively, thereby achieving visually consistent intermediate levels of formality. Here we present a taxonomy of the attributes of visual formality and the implementation of this taxonomy into a sketch tool.”
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Piekarski, Wayne and Plimmer, Beryl (eds.) Proceedings of the Eight Australasian Conference on User interface - Volume 64 January 30-February 02, 2007, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
» 2006 «
Priest, Richard and Plimmer, Beryl (2006): RCA: experiences with an IDE annotation tool. In: Proceedings of CHINZ06, the ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapters International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2006. pp. 53-60. Available online
“Ink annotation is a common method for recording feedback on a paper document. However, reviewing code on paper is difficult due to its non-linear nature. This project extends existing research ideas to develop a digital ink annotation tool within an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The aim is to provide code reviewers with an effective tool for directly commenting on code within the IDE. We describe scenarios where ink annotation would provide benefits, along with requirements and our implementation of the Rich Code Annotation Tool (RCA).”
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Plimmer, Beryl, Grundy, John C., Hosking, John G. and Priest, Richard (2006): Inking in the IDE: Experiences with Pen-based Design and Annotatio. In: VL-HCC 2006 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 4-8 September, 2006, Brighton, UK. pp. 111-115. Available online
Plimmer, Beryl and Mason, Paul (2006): A pen-based paperless environment for annotating and marking student assignments. In: Piekarski, Wayne (ed.) AUIC 2006 - User Interfaces 2006 - 7th Australasian User Interface Conference January 16-19, 2006, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. pp. 37-44. Available online
» 2005 «
Wang, Beirong, Sun, Jian and Plimmer, Beryl (2005): Exploring sketch beautification techniques. In: Proceedings of CHINZ05, the ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapters International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2005. pp. 15-16. Available online
“Beautification of vague, imprecise sketchy ink input is an interesting area for exploration, especially with the emergence of pen-based systems, such as the Tablet PC. Fifty percent of the total time spent creating drawings on a computer is on formalisation operations [3], why waste this time when the same result is achievable via recognition and beautification techniques? We examined beautification and its value in supporting the design process by prototyping a design tool incorporating several beautification techniques. The following is a description of the design, construction and evaluation of our grid based design environment.”
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Chung, Ronald, Mirica, Petrut and Plimmer, Beryl (2005): InkKit: a generic design tool for the tablet PC. In: Proceedings of CHINZ05, the ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapters International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2005. pp. 29-30. Available online
“In this paper, we describe the design philosophy, implementation and evaluation of InkKit, an informal design platform that uses pen input on a tablet PC to imitate the informality of a low fidelity tool. The aim is for this toolkit to provide a foundation for further research into domain specific sketch support. Designers initially hand-sketch their ideas [3, 6] because informal tools, such as pen and paper, offer the freedom to work with partly formed or ambiguous designs. The emergence of electronic pen input systems has seen a number of exploratory projects applying pen-based sketch software to the design process. Even though these projects differ, most of them use the same general framework. Thus a significant part of the implementation incorporates the same basic functionalities.”
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Plimmer, Beryl and Grundy, John C. (2005): Beautifying Sketching-based Design Tool Content: Issues and Experiences. In: Billinghurst, Mark and Cockburn, Andy (eds.) AUIC 2005 - User Interfaces 2005 - Sixth Australasian User Interface Conference January-February, 2005, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. pp. 31-38. Available online
» 2003 «
Plimmer, Beryl and Apperley, Mark (2003): Software to Sketch Interface Designs. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. p. 73.
» 2002 «
Apperley, Mark and Plimmer, Beryl (2002): Computer-Aided Sketching to Capture Preliminary Design. In: Grundy, John C. and Calder, Paul R. (eds.) AUIC2002 - User Interfaces 2002 - Third Australasian User Interface Conference January-February, 2002, Melbourne, Victoria. pp. 9-12. Available online
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