As gesture-based interactions expand across traditional 2D screens and immersive XR platforms, designing intuitive input modalities tailored to specific contexts becomes increasingly essential. This study explores how users cognitively and experienti...
Sustainability challenges demand solutions, and the pace of technological and scientific advances in physical geography and Earth observation have great potential to provide the information needed to address these challenges. This paper highlights fi...
In this study, we propose the use of virtual urban field studies (VUFS) through context-based interface prototypes for evaluating the interaction design of auditory interfaces. Virtual field tests use mixed-reality technologies to combine the fidelit...
Virtual hand clicking is a common interaction task within the peripersonal space of virtual environments (VEs). Based on the hand–eye coordination mechanism, this study adopts click offset, reaction time, movement time, consumed endurance, and...
Spatial metadata is a critical part of any spatial data infrastructure, which enables the organising, sharing, discovery and use of spatial data. This paper highlights a knowledge gap in the usability of the metadata systems for the end–users....
The spatial data infrastructure literature reveals significant gaps in metadata systems concerning their efficiency and effectiveness for end-users. The literature proposes improvements to make the metadata systems more user-friendly. These improveme...
Collaborative digital games and interfaces are increasingly used in both research and commercial contexts, yet little is known about how the spatial arrangement and interface sharing affect the user experience in dyadic settings. Using a two-player i...
This paper presents an indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring system designed for a better end-user experience. The monitoring system consists of elements, from the monitoring sensor to the monitoring interface, designed and implemented by the research...
Augmented Reality (AR) is rapidly advancing, with a new focus on broadening accessibility beyond the visually dominant interfaces. This study explores the integration of audio-based non-visual interfaces within AR, aiming to cater to a diverse audien...
Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly used to produce user interface designs, yet the usability and task-performance implications of AI-generated interfaces remain insufficiently quantified. This study proposes a reproducible evaluation...
This paper presents the design and implementation of the motion controller and adaptive interface for the second generation of the UCF-MANUS intelligent assistive robotic manipulator system. Based on extensive user studies of the system, several feat...
This paper presents the design and development of an adaptive augmented reality (AR) assistance system for complex mechanical assembly tasks. Integrating a wrist-worn optical heart rate sensor to evaluate the user’s cognitive state, the system...
Multimodal user interfaces promise natural and intuitive human–machine interactions. However, is the extra effort for the development of a complex multisensor system justified, or can users also be satisfied with only one input modality? This s...
Contemporary urban commercial complexes have expanded beyond their role as retail facilities and have come to operate as urban architectural interfaces that connect buildings, users, and the surrounding urban context. Their exterior architectural qua...
Virtual museums delivered through immersive virtual reality (VR) function as information environments where users access interpretive content while navigating spatially. With the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI), conversational...
Wheelchair-mounted robotic arms (WMRAs) are assistive manipulators designed to increase the functional independence of individuals with limitations in the upper and lower extremities. While previous research has identified several visual, cognitive,...
Interest in and use of 3D visualizations for analysis and communication of flooding risks has been increasing. At the same time, an ecosystem of 3D user interfaces has also been emerging. Together, they offer exciting potential opportunities for floo...
Restricted by the small screen size, it is challenging for users to obtain all the wayfinding content they need when utilizing mobile devices. This study investigated the effects of map size and interactive interface on users’ wayfinding performance...
In this work, we propose a brain–computer-interface (BCI)-based smart-home interface which leverages motor imagery (MI) signals to operate home devices in real-time. The idea behind MI-BCI is that different types of MI activities will activate...
In-vehicle Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays (AR-HUDs) enhance driving performance and experience by presenting critical information such as navigation cues and collision warnings. Although many studies have investigated the efficacy of AR-HUD navig...
The ongoing evolution of Industry 4.0 technologies necessitates novel and effective modes of human–machine interaction within production environments. This work presents a modular approach to the design and implementation of graphical user inte...
Increasing volumes of spatial data about urban areas are captured and made available via volunteered geographic information (VGI) sources, such as OpenStreetMap (OSM). Hence, new opportunities arise for regional exploration that can lead to improveme...
Learning Commons (LC) support student activities. This exploratory case study examined the LC on the second floor of Learning Square at Meiji University through video observation on one weekday. Movement trajectories, user activities, and dwell time...
Working with contemporary, monolithic desktop Geographical Information Systems can be laborious and confusing, especially for non-experts. An alternative for a more user friendly approach to spatial data edition and spatial analysis may be an “...
Alarm sounds significantly influence a user’s sensory perception while driving, directly affecting driving judgement and safety. Personal experience and the environment play an important role in information cognition, but they are rarely consid...
The integration of artificial intelligence into daily life significantly enhances the autonomy and quality of life of visually impaired individuals. This paper introduces the Visual Impairment Spatial Awareness (VISA) system, designed to holistically...
Commercial spaces integrated with rail transit stations serve not only as transfer interfaces but also as important places for consumption, resting, meeting, social interaction and everyday public life in high-density cities. Existing studies have ma...
This research aims to examine the impact of virtual environments interface on the exploration process, construction of cognitive maps, and performance of orientation tasks in real spaces by users who are blind. The study compared interaction with ide...
This article reviews the range of delivery platforms that have been developed for the PySAL open source Python library for spatial analysis. This includes traditional desktop software (with a graphical user interface, command line or embedded in a co...
Natural user interfaces based on hand gestures are becoming increasingly popular. The need for expensive hardware left a wide range of interaction possibilities that hand tracking enables largely unexplored. Recently, hand tracking has been built int...
Motor Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces (MI-BCIs) are systems that receive the users’ brain activity as an input signal in order to communicate between the brain and the interface or an action to be performed through the detection of the imagin...
Subcellular spatial location is an essential descriptor of molecules biological function. Presently, super-resolution microscopy techniques enable quantification of subcellular objects distribution in fluorescence images, but they rely on instrumenta...
As marked by escalating urban crises, socio-spatial fragmentation, and environmental uncertainty, the resilience of cities increasingly depends on their capacity to foster inclusive and sustainable modes of everyday interaction. Within this context,...
This paper proposes a pseudo-haptic interface that depicts the virtual weights of dumbbells in a virtual gymnasium. When a user performs a dumbbell biceps curl, he/she fixes the elbow joint as a standard joint and lifts the dumbbell, with its movemen...
The ubiquity of multimodal smart devices affords new opportunities for eyes-free applications for conveying graphical information to both sighted and visually impaired users. Using previously established haptic design guidelines for generic rendering...
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Compact affective interfaces must make reporting both easy and meaningful. We evaluated Feeling Tracker through a 21-day home deployment and a separate four-condition experiment, each with 58 older adults. At home, ease ratings increased from 5.53 to...
The automated development of spatial analysis workflows is one of the envisioned benefits of Web services that provide geoprocessing functionality. Automated workflow development requires the means to translate a user objective into a series of geogr...
Nowadays, the existence of metadata is one of the most important aspects of effective discovery of geospatial data published in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). However, due to lack of efficient mechanisms integrated in the data workflow, to assi...
Online handwriting recognition has been the subject of research for many years. Despite that, a limited number of practical applications are currently available. The widespread use of devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets has not bee...
In this work, we extend the previously proposed approach of improving mutual perception during human–robot collaboration by communicating the robot’s motion intentions and status to a human worker using hand-worn haptic feedback devices. The improvem...
The motor imagery (MI)-based brain computer interface (BCI) is an intuitive interface that enables users to communicate with external environments through their minds. However, current MI-BCI systems ask naïve subjects to perform unfamiliar MI t...
Multi-window map interfaces are widely used in geospatial monitoring systems and map-based analytical environments, where users must rapidly locate task-relevant information across multiple spatial displays. Designing visual cues and display conditio...
This study presents a wearable haptic feedback system designed to support speech training for individuals with speech and hearing impairments. The system provides real-time tactile cues based on detected phonemes, helping users correct their pronunci...
The Korean government released the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Portal (NSDIP) by integrating the spatial information possessed by 205 agencies to implement governance through the portal. In this study, four evaluation criteria groups (disclo...
The use of in situ references in Earth observation monitoring is a fundamental need. LUCAS (Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey) is an activity that has performed repeated in situ surveys over Europe every three years since 2006. The dataset is u...
We present a software package for the supervised classification of images useful for cover-type mapping of freshwater habitat (e.g., water surface, gravel bars, vegetation). The software allows the user to select a representative subset of pixels wit...
Cross-interface architectures are increasingly central to large-scale ocean observation systems, where underwater sensor nodes transmit data to spatially distributed buoys that relay information to terrestrial networks. In these deployments, the inhe...
A significant portion of home energy consumption is due to concealed faults and the inefficient usage of home appliances, usually because of user ignorance and a lack of proactive maintenance strategies. In this paper, ENACT, a digital-twin-based sys...
This paper presents an approach integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4 and the open-source DeepSeek-R1, into Geographic Information System (GIS) workflows to enhance the accessibility, flexibility, and efficiency of spatial anal...
SWMM is an open-source model and software developed by the US EPA for the simulation of rainfall-runoff and routing in water bodies, sewer systems and wastewater infrastructures. It has been applied in numerous practical works and research projects....
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