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Ronald M. Baecker
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 174
Citations - 9237
Ronald M. Baecker is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Webcast & Usability. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 171 publications receiving 8756 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronald M. Baecker include National Institutes of Health & Apple Inc..
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"My Hand Doesn't Listen to Me!": Adoption and Evaluation of a Communication Technology for the 'Oldest Old'
TL;DR: The findings suggest factors that facilitate and hinder the adoption of communication technologies, such as social, attitudinal, digital literacy, physical, and usability, and suggest solutions that may be helpful to HCI researchers working with this population.
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User sketches: a quick, inexpensive, and effective way to elicit more reflective user feedback
TL;DR: This study augments conventional usability testing with a user sketching component, and finds that enabling users to sketch their ideas facilitated reflection, and provided a rich medium for discovery and communication of design ideas.
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Dealing with death in design: developing systems for the bereaved
TL;DR: Exploratory fieldwork consisting of focus groups, observations, and consultation with bereavement experts aimed at understanding how technology might be designed to support bereaved parents is reported on, extracting a set of considerations useful for researchers and designers developing systems that deal specifically with Bereavement, and with the end of life more broadly.
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The effect of speech recognition accuracy rates on the usefulness and usability of webcast archives
TL;DR: The data reveals that speech recognition accuracy linearly influences both user performance and experience, shows that transcripts with 45% WER are unsatisfactory, and suggests that transcripts having a WER of 25% or less would be useful and usable in webcast archives.
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Participatory design of an orientation aid for amnesics
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the OrientingTool can improve an amnesic's independence and confidence in managing situations when disoriented, and that participatory design may be productively used with participants who have significant cognitive disabilities.