In a worldwide context, space heating is the largest energy consumer in commercial buildings, it accounts for 35% of the total energy consumed in the US. Energy efficient thermostats, that learn occupancy patterns and user ...

There is a huge availability of videos that have been produced in a very fast and wide way, along with the popularity of Internet. The video authors should carefully consider the scenario since many users have different ...

A common problem for novice users of several engineering simulation tools is that they perceive a great gap between the mathematical model and how it will be represented in software applications. Available packages, particularly ...

To provide personalized assistance to users, interface agents have to learn not only a user's preferences and interests with respect to a software application, but also when and how the user prefers to be assisted. Interface ...

Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) facilitate human-machine interaction, through which the user makes use of a general system in a more efficient way. These interfaces are helpful for different types of users, specifically ...

The goal of this research is to develop an A/B testing method to automatically compare the user experience (UX) of alternative designs for a web application in a real context with a large number of users. The challenge ...

The aim of this study is to provide general guidelines on methods for designing user manuals. The goal is to illustrate the dependencies between product affordances, semantics, and user instruction. The study incorporates ...