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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
SLAP widgets: bridging the gap between virtual and physical controls on tabletops
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds
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...
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
FacetLens: exposing trends and relationships to support sensemaking within faceted datasets
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...
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
EyeSpy: supporting navigation through play
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
From interaction to trajectories: designing coherent journeys through user experiences
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...
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
User-defined gestures for surface computing
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 ...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Audio or tactile feedback: which modality when?
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
User-created forms as an effective method of human-agent communication
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Finding canonical behaviors in user protocols
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults
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...
Abigail Sellen, Richard H. R. Harper, Siân E...