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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Augmented information assimilation: social and algorithmic web aids for the information long tail
To understand how and why individuals make use of emerging information assimilation services on the Web as part of their daily routine, we combined video recordings of online acti...
Brynn Evans, Stuart Card
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Activity-based serendipitous recommendations with the Magitti mobile leisure guide
This paper presents a context-aware mobile recommender system, codenamed Magitti. Magitti is unique in that it infers user activity from context and patterns of user behavior and,...
Victoria Bellotti, James Bo Begole, Ed Huai-hsin C...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Searching for expertise
It is well established that there is a need to find experts to get answers or advice. A variety of expertise locator tools have emerged to help locate the right person. But there ...
Kate Ehrlich, N. Sadat Shami
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Peephole pointing: modeling acquisition of dynamically revealed targets
Peephole interaction occurs when a spatially aware display is moved and acts as a viewport to reveal different parts of the virtual space that cannot all fit within the display at...
Xiang Cao, Jacky Jie Li, Ravin Balakrishnan
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Ninja cursors: using multiple cursors to assist target acquisition on large screens
We propose the "ninja cursor" to improve the performance of target acquisition, particularly on large screens. This technique uses multiple distributed cursors to reduce...
Masatomo Kobayashi, Takeo Igarashi
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Integrating statistics and visualization: case studies of gaining clarity during exploratory data analysis
Although both statistical methods and visualizations have been used by network analysts, exploratory data analysis remains a challenge. We propose that a tight integration of thes...
Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Fitts' throughput and the speed-accuracy tradeoff
We describe an experiment to test the hypothesis that Fitts' throughput is independent of the speed-accuracy tradeoff. Eighteen participants used a mouse in performing a tota...
I. Scott MacKenzie, Poika Isokoski
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Demonstrating the feasibility of using forearm electromyography for muscle-computer interfaces
We explore the feasibility of muscle-computer interfaces (muCIs): an interaction methodology that directly senses and decodes human muscular activity rather than relying on physic...
T. Scott Saponas, Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin...
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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic whiteout++: correcting mini-QWERTY typing errors using keypress timing
By analyzing features of users' typing, Automatic Whiteout++ detects and corrects up to 32.37% of the errors made by typists while using a mini?QWERTY (RIM Blackberry style) ...
James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Alex Rudnick, Robert A....