The WEL presence at major HCI conference
Do users look at dynamic content on the Web? The contribution of the WEL to the CHI 2014 conference
The members of the Web Ergonomics Lab recently presented several papers at the major Human-Computer Interaction Conference, CHI 2014. CHI attracts around 3500 attendees from industry and academia every year and its technical programme is known to be the showcase of the year's breakthroughs in the field. The contributions of the WEL to the programme cover a broad range of topics, including:
"Predicting whether users view dynamic content on the world wide web" is a ACM TOCHI paper by Caroline Jay, Andy Brown and Simon Harper that proposes a model to predict if individuals look at dynamic content such as tickets, auto-suggest list or pop-ups on the Web. This is helpful in order to generate an auditory output channel for those who cannot see the screen because they have a visual disability or are doing a task that requires all their attention such as driving a car.