Research/Readings

Hi all!

Hope all is well.

What I have been doing so far -

I have been doing loads of research and reading around the title of my thesis. My thesis title is: "The Effects On Children Using Auditory Cues For Task On Tangible Tabletop Interface Environment"

I have been browsing through Prof. Stephen Brewster's website (suggested by Bob) and have found some useful information and journals on research into audio and haptic (touch-based) human computer interaction and mobile computing devices in the Glasgow Interaction Group. The group is a part of GIST ( Glasgow Interactive Systems Group).Prof. Stephen Brewster is an academic in the department of Computer Science at Glasgow university. Below links to Stephen Brewster's URL

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/

I have downloaded and read journals from the above page .These are:

• 'Maturation of Visual and Auditory Temporal Processing in School-Aged Children' by P. Dawn and D.V.M. Bishop
• 'The Design and Evaluation of an Auditory Enhances ScrollBar' by Stephen A. Brewster
• 'Realtime Digital Synthesis of Virtual Acoustic Environments' by E.M Wenzel & S. H. Foster
• 'Audio or Tactile Feedback: Which Modality When?' by Stephen Brewster et al
• 'Tac-tiles: Multimodal Pie Charts For Visually Imapred Users' by Stephen Brewster and Stephen A. Wal
• 'An Investigation of Using Music to Provide Navigation Cues' by G. Leplatre and Stephen Brewster.
• 'Investigating Background & Fore-ground Interactions Using Spatial Audio Cues' by Stephen Brewster & Y. Vazquez-Alvarez

While reading these journals, some information related to the work I am undertaking but felt the majority was not relevant and were a bit outdated. I contacted via phone a research fellow, Marilyn Rose McGee -Lennon a member of the Glasgow Multi-modal Interaction Group who works with Stephen Brewster. During our telephone conversation, I agreed when she told me that it is very easy to end up with loads of irrelevant information. I have been doing my research and felt this is exactly what was happening.

However she sent more target information relating to my study via e-mail. Below are the list of journals and and Online references that she sent me.

• 'Multisensory Roughness Perception of Virtual Surfaces: Effects of Correlated Cues' by J.Wiesenberger & G.L. Poling
• 'Evaluation the Use of Sound as a Navigational Aid on a Mobile Device - Discussion' by M.Crease & Y. Lau
• 'Haptics In Virtual Environments: Taxonomy, Research Status, and Challenges' by M. Srinivasan & C. Basdogan
• 'Humans Integrate visual and haptic Information in a statistically optimal fashion' by M.Ernts & M. Banks
• 'It's About Time: A Conceptual Framework for the Representation of Temporal Dynamics in Geographic Information Systems' by D. Peuquet
• 'Progress in Human Geography' by http://phg.sagepub.com
• 'Relative Performance using Haptic and/or Touch-Produced Auditory Cues in a Remote Absolute Texture Identification Task' by S.J. Lederman, A. Martin, C. Tong & R.L. Klatzky
• 'Seeing More: Visualizing Audio Cues' by T. Bergstrom & K. Karahalios
• 'The Effiective Combination of Haptic and Auditory Textural Information' by M. Rose McGee, P. Gray and S. Brewster
• 'Touching and Hearing GUI's Design Issues for the PC - Access System' by C. Ramstein, O.Martial, A. Dufresne, M. Carignan, P. Chasse and P. Mabileau
• http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/bibliography.shtml

• http://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/pubs/experimental-psychology-publications/HoSpence2005

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.5.7029

  http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2632311

  http://cogprints.org/1509/0/wayfind.htm

The journals are a bit outdated but relevant and felt after reading can articulate bit on audio.

I contacted a PhD student Evi Indriasari Mansor from Manchester University who is now coming to the end of her studies. She does research into Touchable Surfaces (DT). She sent me information via e-mail; journals with research into Touchable Interfaces. Journals sent were:

• 'The fantasy Table' by Evi I. Mansor et al
• 'Read-It - Five-to-seven-year-old children learn to read in a tabletop environment' by R.J.W. Sluis et al School of User System Interaction
• 'Enforcing Cooperative Storytelling: First Studies' by A. Cappelletti, G. Gelmini, F. Pianesi, F. Rossi and M. Zancanaro
• 'Evaluation the Effects of Fluid Interface Components on Tabletop Collaboration' by U. Hinrichs, S. Carpendale and S.D. Scott
• 'Exploring the Effects of Group Size and Table Size on Interactions with Tabletop Shared-Display Groupware' by K. Ryall, C. Forlines, C. Shen and M.R. Morris
• ' Hands on What? Comparing Children's Mouse-based and Tangible-based Interaction' by A. N. Antle, M. Droumeva and D. Ha
• 'Little fingers on the tabletop: A usability evaluation in the Kindergarten' n Evi I. Mansor, A. De Angeli and o. De Bruijn
• 'Tabletop Sharing of Digital Photographs for the Elderly' by T. Aped, J. Kay and A. Quigley

I feel I have enough to talk about touchable surfaces and applications created. I have also researched and read very useful information regarding Interactive environments through ACM Portal. Some of these were:

• 'Exploring Non-Speech Auditory Feedback at an Interactive Multi-User Tabletop' by M. S. Hancock C. Shen, C. Forlines and K. Ryall
• 'Exploring Ambient Sound Techniques in the Design of Responsive Environments for Children' by M. Droumeva, A. Antle and R. Wakkary

I am behind schedule for my observation. I planned on carrying out my observation at the end of July. The problem I am experiencing at the moment is negotiating an a suitable date for all/most parents to bring their children in. I plan on carrying out my observation no later than Friday or early next week.

I think I have fitted appropriate questions for my methodology. I will be needing a second person to observe with me.

More in my next blog

Bye for now