OZCHI 2008: Cains, Queensland, Australia
Nicola J. Bidwell (Ed.): Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OZCHI 2008: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, Cairns, Australia, December 8-12, 2008. ACM 2008 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 287 ISBN 0-9803063-4-5
Green dwelling
James Pierce, William Odom, Eli Blevis: Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations. 1-8
Yolande A. A. Strengers: Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households. 9-16
Jon M. Pearce, John Murphy, Wally Smith: Supporting gardeners to plan domestic watering: a case study of designing an 'everyday simulation'. 227-230
Nicole Podleschny: Playing urban sustainability: the ecology of a simulation game. 231-234
Touch & proximity
Minna Isomursu, Pekka Isomursu, Mervi Komulainen-Horneman: Touch to access the mobile internet. 17-24
Ahmad Hanif Ahmad Baharin, Romiza Md. Nor, Ralf Mühlberger: It's the thought that counts: content vs. contact. 235-238
Chao-Lung Lee, Yun-Maw Cheng, Ching-Long Yeh, Li-Chieh Chen, Wai Yu, Kuan-Ta Chen: Surfing in the crowd: feasibility study of experience sharing in a Taiwanese night market. 239-242
Communities & displays
Marcus Foth, Víctor M. González, Kenneth L. Kraemer: Design considerations for community portals in master-planned developments in Australia and Mexico. 33-40
Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst: "This might be stupid, but...": participatory design with community displays and postcards. 41-48
Christine Satchell, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn, Ronald Schroeter: Suburban nostalgia: the community building potential of urban screens. 243-246
Boredom, emotion & motivations
Nilma Perera, Gregor E. Kennedy, Jon M. Pearce: Are you bored?: Maybe an interface agent can help! 49-56
Judy van Biljon, Paula Kotzé, Karen Renaud: Mobile phone usage of young adults: the impact of motivational factors. 57-64
Noelene Fajardo, Andrew Vande Moere: ExternalEyes: evaluating the visual abstraction of human emotion on a public wearable display device. 247-250
Jon M. Pearce, Sofia Pardo: To search or to explore -- that is the question: a study in mindful engagement. 251-254
Collaboration, training & health
Duncan Stevenson: Training and process change: a collaborative telehealth case study. 65-72
Jane Li, Toni Robertson, Susan Hansen, Tim Mansfield, Jesper Kjeldskov: Multidisciplinary medical team meetings: a field study of collaboration in health care. 73-80
Susan Hansen, Toni Robertson, Laurie Wilson, Ralph Hall: Using an action research approach to design a telemedicine system for critical care: a reflection. 255-258
The body
Lian Loke, Toni Robertson: Inventing and devising movement in the design of movement-based interactive systems. 81-88
Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann, Jonas Fritsch, Karen Johanne Kortbek: Kinesthetic interaction: revealing the bodily potential in interaction design. 89-96
Danielle Wilde: The hipdiskettes: learning (through) wearables. 259-262
Digital dichotomies
Nancy Odendaal, James Duminy, Paul Saunders: Is digital technology urban?: Understanding intermetropolitan digital divides in South Africa. 97-103
Jolynna Sinanan: Social tools and social capital: reading mobile phone usage in rural indigenous communities. 267-270
Dean M. G. Hargreaves, Bob R. L. McCown: Low-cost, low-bandwidth online meetings between farmers and scientists. 271-274
Daria Loi, Sasanka Prabhala: The rise of middle and upper middle class in emerging markets: product and service opportunities. 275-278
Usability & design reflections
Stefan Cronholm, Vince Bruno: Do you need general principles or concrete heuristics?: a model for categorizing usability criteria. 105-111

Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Jens Fendler, Colin Stanley, Dave Joubert, Ibo Zimmermann, Sebastian Mukumbira: A bush encroachment decision support system's metamorphosis. 287-290
Playing across boundaries
Chen Wei, Gary Marsden, James E. Gain: Novel interface for first person shooting games on PDAs. 113-121
Jeni Paay, Jesper Kjeldskov, Anders Christensen, Andreas Ibsen, Dan Jensen, Glen Nielsen, René Vutborg: Location-based storytelling in the urban environment. 122-129
Kenton O'Hara, Hazel Grian, John Williams: Participation, collaboration and spectatorship in an alternate reality game. 130-139
Telling stories
Arto Puikkonen, Leena Ventä, Jonna Häkkilä, Jenine P. Beekhuyzen: Playing, performing, reporting: a case study of mobile minimovies composed by teenage girls. 140-147
David Browning, Nicola J. Bidwell, Dianna Hardy, Peta-Marie Standley: Rural encounters: cultural translations through video. 148-155
Stefan Schutt: Staging life stories on the web: the Small Histories project and performances of reconstruction. 295-298
Notifications and displays
Stavros Garzonis, Chris Bevan, Eamonn O'Neill: Mobile service audio notifications: intuitive semantics and noises. 156-163
Ming-Wei Lin, Yun-Maw Cheng, Wai Yu, Frode Eika Sandnes: Investigation into the feasibility of using tactons to provide navigation cues in pedestrian situations. 299-302
Ken Lee, Kyung Jean (Tyler) Yang, Beryl Plimmer, Michael Harrison: Real-time anaesthesia diagnosis display system with multi-modal alarms. 303-306
Andreas Dünser, Mark Billinghurst, Gabriela Mancero: Evaluating visual search performance with a multi layer display. 307-310
Living, being & dying
Aino Ahtinen, Shruti Ramiah, Jan Blom, Minna Isomursu: Design of mobile wellness applications: identifying cross-cultural factors. 164-171
Nazean Jomhari, Víctor M. González, Sri Hastuti Kurniawan: Telling my baby's stories: family communication and narrative practices of young mothers living abroad. 311-314
Catherine Howell, Michael Arnold: Night shifts: some situated dimensions of student technology use. 315-318
Pin Sym Foong: Designing technology for sensitive contexts: supporting end-of-life decision making. 172-179
Social networks
Ann Light, Clodagh Miskelly, Steve Thompson: An analysis of building habitat with networked tools. 180-187
Hilary Davis, Frank Vetere, Shawn Ashkanasy, Gavin Dyson, Penelope Schofield, Kate Thompson, Giselle Withers, David Thomas: Towards social connection for young people with cancer. 319-322
Angela Button: Designing social tools for the bees, the buzz and the beehive. 323-326
Exploration, learning & multimodality
Frank G. Feltham: Do the blocks rock: a tangible interface for play and exploration. 188-194
Peter Reid, Beryl Plimmer: A collaborative multimodal handwriting training environment for visually impaired students. 195-202
Alex Krumm-Heller, Anja Wessels, Franco Di Dio: Teaching multimedia by using multimedia: remote hands-on teaching. 327-330
Peta Wyeth: Understanding engagement with tangible user interfaces. 331-334
Speech & voice
Saturnino Luz, Masood Masoodian, Bill Rogers, Chris Deering: Interface design strategies for computer-assisted speech transcription. 203-210
Dharani Priyahansika Perera, R. T. Jim Eales, Kathy Blashki: Voice art: a novel mode for creating visual art. 211-218
M. Asif Khawaja, Natalie Ruiz, Fang Chen: Think before you talk: an empirical study of relationship between speech pauses and cognitive load. 335-338
Design, creation & collaboration
Peter Dalsgård, Kim Halskov, Rune Nielsen: Towards a design space explorer for media facades. 219-226
Julien Phalip, David Jean, Ernest A. Edmonds: Resolving ambiguity of scope in remote collaboration: a study in film scoring. 339-342
Viveka Weiley, Yusuf Pisan: The distributed studio: towards a theory of virtual place for creative collaboration. 343-346
Edin Tabak: Inscription of information behaviour to communities of practice on an organisational intranet. 347-350



