We explore some of the characteristics of multimodal input interaction spaces for notification systems within a multi-tasking environment like a command and control center using two promising interaction methods: gestures and touch based input through a laboratory experiment comparing both techniques. Results of our study suggest that gestures are better suited for multi-tasking situations because they are less interruptive than touch interaction to users' primary tasks and are subjectively preferred by users in certain situations.

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In a one-day workshop, we strive to build community in this emerging research area, specifically targeting interfaces that are designed to provide awareness in a peripheral and elegant manner. We focus on improving consensus of basic and fundamental issues and developing a structural framework-critical parameters, design themes, and evaluation procedures-for research on these types of user interfaces.

Our research investigates notification qualities of different types of voices, moving toward interfaces that support optimal allocation of attention to maximize system utility. We conducted an experiment to determine the interruption, reaction, and comprehension values of three different voice categories: the user's voice, a familiar voice, and an unfamiliar voice. Initial testing showed significant and impactful results: unfamiliar voices are the least interruptive, and a user reacts most quickly to one's own voice. Motivated by these findings, we report on the development and deployment of a notification system that exploits the differences in familiarity of a voice.

developers may not give enough attention to the importance of UX/UI design for the product under development. Moreover, such small teams may lack the required organization skills that help them to collaborate and work together. As a result, such teams usually face p as well as not being able to follow a sustainable development process. In a similar context, CS students in programming classes are facing almost the same problems of small teams in industry.To tackle these problems, various approaches for integrating agile development methods and UX design methods have been proposed to help developers carefully consider the UX requirements, and to be able to organize their work environment. In this paper, we explore how such integration can be a good fit for both CS students and software developers, especially for those who work on mobile development. We present our proposed set of integration guidelines, and then we focus on Pair Programming (PP) as an agile practice that promotes a collaborative work environment. The expert reviews conducted in this paper helped us exlore how PP can be introduced to CS students (and later, to developers in the market) to support collaborative work environments. Moreover, Using PP in class provides an adaptive and collaborative teaching approach that can be used in CS programming labs. We also discuss the pitfalls that can affect developers during PP sessions, and how to avoid such negative effects. We conclude by providing a set of recommended practices that can be applied to introduce PP for developers in both academic and industrial contexts. KeywordsFrameworks for collaboration; collaborative software development; collaboration in education; agile methods; pair programming; UX design 978-1-4673-7648-8/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE 124 125