Human Interface and the Management of Information. Methods, Techniques and Tools in Information Design Symposium on Human Interface 2007, Held as Part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.R. China, 22-27 July 2007, jointly with the Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2007, the 7th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, the 2nd International Conf- ence on Virtual Reality, the 2nd International Conference on Usability and Inter- tionalization, the 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, the 3rd International Conference on Augmented Cognition, and the 1st International Conference on Digital Human Modeling. A total of 3403 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry and governmental agencies from 76 countries submitted contributions, and 1681 papers, judged to be of high scientific quality, were included in the program. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation th- oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. This volume, edited by Michael J. Smith and Gavriel Salvendy, contains papers in the thematic area of Human Interface and the Management of Information, addressing the following major topics: • Design and Evaluation Methods and Techniques • Visualizing Information • Retrieval, Searching, Browsing and Navigation • Development Methods and Techniques • Advanced Interaction Technologies and Techniques

I: Design and Evaluation Methods and Techniques.- Exporting Usability Knowledge into a Small-Sized Software Development Organization – A Pattern Approach.- Human Evaluation of Visual and Haptic Interaction.- Aporia in the Maps of the Hypermedia Systems.- Model Based HMI Specification in an Automotive Context.- Does Information Content Influence Perceived Informativeness? An Experiment in the Hypermedia.- Understanding Requirements of Ubiquitous Application in Context of Daily Life.- Design for Confident Communication of Information in Public Spaces.- Suggestion of Methods for Understanding User’s Emotional Changes While Using a Product.- Unconscious Transmission Services of Human Feelings.- Do Beliefs About Hospital Technologies Predict Nurses’ Perceptions of Their Ability to Provide Quality Care? A Study in Two Pediatric Hospitals.- Information Design for User’s Reassurance in Public Space.- Use of Socio-technical Guidelines in Collaborative System Development.- Expert Systems Evaluation Proposal.- Evaluating Interfaces to Publicly Available Environmental Information.- Harder to Access, Better Performance? The Effects of Information Access Cost on Strategy and Performance.- Measurement and Analysis of Performance of Human Perception for Information Communication Technology.- Considerations on Efficient Touch Interfaces – How Display Size Influences the Performance in an Applied Pointing Task.- Analysis and Evaluation of Recommendation Systems.- Collaborative Scenario Building: The Case of an ‘Advertainment’ Portal.- A Case Study on Effective Application of Inquiry Methods to Find Out Mobile Phone’s New Function.- An Experimental Examination of Customer Preferences on User Interface Design of Mobile Services.- Basic Experimental Verification of Grasping Information Interface Concept, Grasping Force Increases in Precise Periods.- A Study of Information Flow Between Designers and Users Via Website Focused on Property of Hyper Links.- Implementing the HCD Method into the Developing Process of a CPD System.- Artificial Psychology.- Human-Friendly HCI Method for the Control of Home Appliance.- A Framework for Enterprise Information Systems.- Information Behaviors of HCI Professionals: Design of Intuitive Reference System for Technologies.- II: Visualising Information.- 3D World from 2D Photos.- An Interactive Approach to Display Large Sets of Association Rules.- Integrating Sensor Data with System Information Via Interactive Visualizations.- Fovea-Tablett®: A New Paradigm for the Interaction with Large Screens.- ZEUS – Zoomable Explorative User Interface for Searching and Object Presentation.- Folksonomy-Based Collaborative Tagging System for Classifying Visualized Information in Design Practice.- Interactive Product Visualization for an In-Store Sales Support System for the Clothing Retail.- A Visualization Solution for the Analysis and Identification of Workforce Expertise.- The Study of Past Working History Visualization for Supporting Trial and Error Approach in Data Mining.- Towards a Metrics-Based Framework for Assessing Comprehension of Software Visualization Systems.- Facilitating Visual Queries in the TreeMap Using Distortion Techniques.- ActiveScrollbar: A Scroll Bar with Direct Scale Ratio Control.- Communication Analysis of Visual Support System That Uses Line Drawing Expression.- Integrating Data Quality Data into Decision-Making Process: An Information Visualization Approach.- III: Retrieval, Searching, Browsing and Navigation.- HCI and Information Search: Capturing Task and Searcher Characteristics Through ‘User Ability to Specify Information Need’.- Hierarchical Image Gathering Technique for Browsing Surveillance Camera Images.- Self-help Troubleshooting by Q-KE-CLD Based on a Fuzzy Bayes Model.- A Treemap-Based Result Interface for Search Engine Users.- Development of an Approach for Optimizing the Accuracy of Classifying Claims Narratives Using a Machine Learning Tool (TEXTMINER[4]).- The Interface of VISTO, a New Vector Image Search Tool.- Using Autobiographic Information to Retrieve Real and Electronic Documents.- A Video Digest and Delivery System: “ChocoParaTV”.- Extraction of Anchor-Related Text and Its Evaluation by User Studies.- Rough Ontology: Extension of Ontologies by Rough Sets.- Selecting Target Word Using Contexonym Comparison Method.- Distance-Based Bloom Filter for an Efficient Search in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Integrated Physically Based Manipulation and Decision-Making Tree for Navigation to Support Design Rationale.- Text Analysis of Consumer Reviews: The Case of Virtual Travel Firms.- Computer Classification of Injury Narratives Using a Fuzzy Bayes Approach: Improving the Model.- Involving the User in Semantic Search.- Hybrid Singular Value Decomposition: A Model of Human Text Classification.- A Method for Constructing a Movie-Selection Support System Based onKansei Engineering.- LensList: Browsing and Navigating Long Linear Information Structures.- Context-Based Loose Information Structure for Medical Free Text Document.- MyView: Personalized Event Retrieval and Video Compositing from Multi-camera Video Images.- IV: Development Methods and Techniques.- Context-Aware Information Agents for the Automotive Domain Using Bayesian Networks.- Signposts to Tomorrow’s Human-Computer Interaction.- Moving Object Contour Detection Based on S-T Characteristics in Surveillance.- On Achieving Proportional Loss Differentiation Using Dynamic-MQDDP with Differential Drop Probability.- Converting Information Through a Complete and Minimal Unit Transcoder for QoS Adaptation.- Knowledge Management in the Development of Optimization Algorithms.- Research of Model-Driven Interactive Automatic / Semi-automatic Form Building.- HEI! – The Human Environment Interaction.- Mining Attack Correlation Scenarios Based on Multi-agent System.- A Methodology for Construction Information System for Small Size Organization with Excel/VBA.- Visual Agent Programming (VAP): An Interactive System to Program Animated Agents.- The Implementation of Adaptive User Interface Migration Based on Ubiquitous Mobile Agents.- Construction of Web Application for Cusp Surface Analysis.- Design and Implementation of Enhanced Real Time News Service Using RSS and VoiceXML.- Correlation Analysis of Available Bandwidth Estimators for Mobile HCI.- A Bayesian Methodology for Semi-automated Task Analysis.- Machine Learning and Applications for Brain-Computer Interfacing.- An Information Filtering Method Based on User’s Moods, Situations, and Preferences.- An Adaptive Frame-Based Admission Control for Multimedia Traffic in Wireless LAN.- A Network Framework on Adaptive Power Management in HCI Mobile Terminals.- Real-Time Stereoscopic Conversion with Adaptable Viewing Distance at Personal Stereoscopic Viewing Devices.- Performance Improvement of SCTP for Heterogeneous Ubiquitous Environment.- A Suggestion for Analysis of Unexpected Obstacles in Embedded System.- Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Communication Detection System Using Network Traffic Mining.- A Method for Rule Extraction by Discernible Vector.- The Activation Mechanism for Dynamically Generated Procedures in Hyperlogo.- V: Advanced Interaction Technologies and Techniques.- The Importance of Human Stance in Reading Machine’s Mind (Intention).- Kansei Analysis for Robotic Motions in Ubiquitous Environments.- The Use of Dynamic Display to Improve Reading Comprehension for the Small Screen of a Wrist Watch.- Embodied Communication Between Human and Robot in Route Guidance.- A Comparative Study of Brain Activities Engaged in Interface Operations by Means of NIRS Trajectory Map.- Interaction Design of a Remote Clinical Robot for Ophthalmology.- Development of Facial Expression Training System.- A Cognitive Approach to Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction for Service Robots.- A Study on a Stereoscopic Display System Using a Rotary Disk Type Beam Shutter.- Internal Timing Mechanism for Real-Time Coordination - Two Types of Control i