In this poster we present Portable-Spheree, an interactive spherical rear-projected 3D-content-display that provides perspective-corrected views according to the user's head position, to provide parallax, shading and occlusion depth cues. Portable-Spheree is an evolution of the Spheree and it is developed in a smaller form factor, using more projectors and a dark-translucent screen with increased contrast. We present some preliminary results of this new configuration as well as applications with spatial interaction that might benefit from this new form factor.

In hospital settings, where healthcare professionals are always in motion, it is important that the whole interaction and communication process be documented to avoid inconsistencies and rework, since the communication in these environments is important to healthcare professionals. The use of mobile devices in health environments is growing up and it helps the communication among healthcare professionals, they can do their professionals activities more effectively, and yet the healthcare professionals can organize and manage their personal and social activities while they are in work environment. In this work, we present a proposal for software development regarding e-Health, using concepts of natural interaction Information and Communication Technologies solutions for mobile. We analyzed the professionals' activities and communication in a certain hospital, using participatory design, to look for ways of improving their communication process. The solution presented in this paper was proposed after we observe the communication among healthcare professionals in a hospital, make scenarios and analyze some interviews and photos collected, combining them to get a more realist understanding of that routine.

Abstract—Through a participatory design (PD) process with therapists at a neurological chronic care hospital that has no ICT based workflow processes we identified three main components where NUI technology can be deployed for physical therapy: patient stimulation, on-demand patient therapy tool control, and data logging and visualization. Based on our study, we created a scenario that encompasses these components for a specific physical therapy activity targeting head and torso movement for children suffering neurological disorders. The scenario includes a Kinect, large screen and mobile pervasive technologies controlling a game-like activity including data logging and visualization in a shared social intranet. Hospital staff liked the game-activity and logging, but expressed concerns about parallel use of technology. They also wanted to expand the use of the NUI technology in the therapy room leading to new scenarios that we are pursuing. We are using our participatory design process with therapists that are not tainted by the use of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to establish scenarios where NUI designs can provide access to ICT tools to help us develop better NUI design principles.

This paper describes the use of common sense knowledge to develop both interface and content of the applications taking into consideration people's cultural background. People can easily understand whole information presents in application when they are in a familiar and natural language. Because of this, it is important to consider people's culture, values and language during applications developing to allow them to use these applications in a familiar way to work or to interact with others people. To illustrate this possibility, it is presented here two applications with different objectives but both need to stimulate people to interact and to cooperate with each other. These two applications, called: Contexteller and FamilySense, use common sense knowledge to allow people feel themselves more interest to interact with computer and with others people through computer.

This paper presents Cognitor, a common-sense aided framework for the cog-learn pattern language that aims to help content editors create and contextualize e-learning content through the generation of hyper documents that comprise pedagogical issues, producing learning objects (LO) compatible with the SCORM standard. Cog-Learn have been developed from learning and human-computer interaction (HCI) theories. The goal of Cognitor is to allow for the design of digital learning material with better organization of the content that will be explored by learners, aiming to make easier the interaction with it, addressing HCI issues, as well as the interaction between learners and teachers, addressing human-human interaction (HHI) issues. To reach that, it is important that the LO created in Cognitor be easy to reuse, helping creators to fill out the metadata aiming at addressing cultural issues related to the context in which the LO can be adopted and reused. For that, suggestions coming from a common sense knowledge base automatically appear in some SCORM metadata fields in order to help the task of filling out culturally contextualized metadata.

Quality of life is one of the main concerns nowadays for everybody. Also it is considered that is necessary to save time, space, energy, etc, in order to guarantee comfort, family health links and good job results. Work at home is becoming more common, especially through the Web. Collaborative and participatory work via Web tends to increase due to teams of people's needs in accomplishing tasks separated by distance and time, which demands more effort and stronger commitment from each person. In this context, it must be considered cultural differences, which interfere with the performance of each individual and either promote or deny the communication intended for the group. Especially nowadays with many computer based environments for supporting such tasks, the culture factor is becoming imperative to reach teams' success. Differences among people make difficult the definition of universal parameters that organizations can use to motivate people. There is always a subjective component in motivation that is complex, related to culture and individual values. Color, learning style and the use of a certain vocabulary vary according to the culture. This paper aims to discuss a multidisciplinary analysis about colors and stimuli in computer environment using common sense knowledge, considering the cultural associations people make with colors, showing how it can motivate users to Web collaboration using color symbolically built in the culture.

This paper describes Contexteller, a collaborative educational system for storytelling that supports teachers in configuring and adapting stories to match children's cultural background, by means of exploiting common sense knowledge. This game is meant to support teachers to interact with students with different social and cultural backgrounds, allowing her/him to create stories according to the students' cultural reality, expressed in their common sense knowledge, and consequently enabling them to get interested in helping the development of the story. This cultural sensitive storytelling environment intends to promote a closer contact between teacher and students and among students themselves giving them a computer tool to help children to freely express their thoughts, desires and to support them to cooperative work with teachers what is desirable for their intellectual and cognitive development. Contextualization and the narrative are supported by the OMCS-Br common sense knowledge base, which gives to the teacher some resources to perform an activity according to the pedagogical goals.

Learning process varies according to learners' profiles and cultural contexts in which they are inserted. In order to provide effective learning, educators should contextualize the learning process to their learners' needs from the planning of learning activities, i.e. a group of tasks with educational purpose, to the elaboration of learning content that they will use. This is a way to provide personalized learning to different groups of learners, one of the grand challenges for engineering research in the 21stcentury. This paper proposes the use of common sense knowledge for developing computer applications to support educators in contextualizing the learning process to their learners' reality by the analysis of common sense knowledge collected from people with the same profile of the learners. It presents the solutions of OMCS-Br for collecting and using common sense knowledge into computer applications and three educational applications developed for the purpose of helping educators with personalized learning.