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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Extraordinary computing: religion as a lens for reconsidering the home
We present results from a study examining how American Protestant Christians' faith affects their domestic life. There are two contributions of this work for the HCI communit...
Susan Wyche, Rebecca E. Grinter
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
What's "this" you say?: the use of local references on distant displays
This study explores how the design of visual display configurations relates to linguistic expressions. Twenty-five participants performed a series of object identification and nar...
Patti Bao, Darren Gergle
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A comprehensive study of frequency, interference, and training of multiple graphical passwords
Graphical password systems have received significant attention as one potential solution to the need for more usable authentication, but nearly all prior work makes the unrealisti...
Katherine Everitt, Tanya Bragin, James Fogarty, Ta...
190
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Social immersive media: pursuing best practices for multi-user interactive camera/projector exhibits
Based on ten years' experience developing interactive camera/projector systems for public science and culture exhibits, we define a distinct form of augmented reality focused...
Scott S. Snibbe, Hayes Raffle
210
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Focus on driving: how cognitive constraints shape the adaptation of strategy when dialing while driving
We investigate how people adapt their strategy for interleaving multiple concurrent tasks to varying objectives. A study was conducted in which participants drove a simulated vehi...
Duncan P. Brumby, Dario D. Salvucci, Andrew Howes
183
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action
Researchers are developing mobile sensing platforms to facilitate public awareness of environmental conditions. However, turning such awareness into practical community action and...
Paul M. Aoki, R. J. Honicky, Alan M. Mainwaring, C...
144
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Rake cursor: improving pointing performance with concurrent input channels
We investigate the use of two concurrent input channels to perform a pointing task. The first channel is the traditional mouse input device whereas the second one is the gaze posi...
Renaud Blanch, Michael Ortega
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Designable visual markers
Visual markers are graphic symbols designed to be easily recognised by machines. They are traditionally used to track goods, but there is increasing interest in their application ...
Enrico Costanza, Jeffrey Huang
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Power tools for copying and moving: useful stuff for your desktop
Copy and move operations have long been supported by interactive desktops through various means. But the growing number of on-screen objects makes these means harder to use. In th...
Guillaume Faure, Olivier Chapuis, Nicolas Roussel
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Resilience through technology adoption: merging the old and the new in Iraq
Little attention has been given to how citizens use technology to be resilient when their country is at war. We report on an ethnographic interview study of how technology was ado...
Gloria Mark, Ban Al-Ani, Bryan Semaan