We present Silicone iLluminated Active Peripherals (SLAP), a system of tangible, translucent widgets for use on multitouch tabletops. SLAP Widgets are cast from silicone or made o...
Malte Weiss, Julie Wagner, Yvonne Jansen, Roger Je...
An increasingly large number of users connect to virtual worlds on a regular basis to conduct activities ranging from gaming to business meetings. In all these worlds, users proje...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui Wen, Nicholas Yee, Gr...
Previous research has shown that faceted browsing is effective and enjoyable in searching and browsing large collections of data. In this work, we explore the efficacy of interact...
Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, George G. Robertson, Mar...
This paper demonstrates how useful content can be generated as a by-product of an enjoyable mobile multiplayer game. In EyeSpy, players tag geographic locations with photos or tex...
Marek Bell, Stuart Reeves, Barry Brown, Scott Sher...
The idea of interactional trajectories through interfaces has emerged as a sensitizing concept from recent studies of tangible interfaces and interaction in museums and galleries....
Steve Benford, Gabriella Giannachi, Boriana Koleva...
Many surface computing prototypes have employed gestures created by system designers. Although such gestures are appropriate for early investigations, they are not necessarily ref...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, Andrew ...
When designing interfaces for mobile devices it is important to take into account the variety of contexts of use. We present a study that examines how changing noise and disturban...
Eve E. Hoggan, Andrew Crossan, Stephen A. Brewster...
A key challenge for mixed-initiative systems is to create a shared understanding of the task between human and agent. To address this challenge, we created a mixed-initiative inte...
John Zimmerman, Kathryn Rivard, Ian Hargraves, Ant...
While the collection of behavioral protocols has been common practice in human-computer interaction research for many years, the analysis of large protocol data sets is often extr...
Walter C. Mankowski, Peter Bogunovich, Ali Shokouf...
This paper offers an exploration of the attitudes of older adults to keeping in touch with people who are important to them. We present findings from three focus groups with peopl...