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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Listening to your inner voices: investigating means for voice notifications
Our research investigates notification qualities of different types of voices, moving toward interfaces that support optimal allocation of attention to maximize system utility. We...
Saurabh Bhatia, D. Scott McCrickard
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management occurs when someone who is working on a single project stores and retrieves information items relating to that...
Ofer Bergman, Ruth Beyth-Marom, Rafi Nachmias
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Support for activity-based computing in a personal computing operating system
Research has shown that computers are notoriously bad at supporting the management of parallel activities and interruptions, and that mobility increases the severity and scope of ...
Jakob E. Bardram, Jonathan Bunde-Pedersen, Mads S&...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens
The size of human fingers and the lack of sensing precision can make precise touch screen interactions difficult. We present a set of five techniques, called Dual Finger Selection...
Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D. Wilson, Patrick Baudisch
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Interweaving mobile games with everyday life
We introduce a location?based game called Feeding Yoshi that provides an example of seamful design, in which key characteristics of its underlying technologies--the coverage and s...
Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Louise Barkhuus, Mal...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Talk to me: foundations for successful individual-group interactions in online communities
People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Tabletop sharing of digital photographs for the elderly
We have recently begun to see hardware support for the tabletop user interface, offering a number of new ways for humans to interact with computers. Tabletops offer great potentia...
Trent Apted, Judy Kay, Aaron J. Quigley
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
OrthoZoom scroller: 1D multi-scale navigation
This article introduces the OrthoZoom Scroller, a novel interaction technique that improves target acquisition in very large one-dimensional spaces. The OrthoZoom Scroller require...
Caroline Appert, Jean-Daniel Fekete
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Peekaboom: a game for locating objects in images
We introduce Peekaboom, an entertaining web-based game that can help computers locate objects in images. People play the game because of its entertainment value, and as a side eff...
Luis von Ahn, Ruoran Liu, Manuel Blum
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts
We address the problem of collecting a database of "common-sense facts" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that i...
Luis von Ahn, Mihir Kedia, Manuel Blum