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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
WinCuts: manipulating arbitrary window regions for more effective use of screen space
Each window on our computer desktop provides a view into some information. Although users can currently manipulate multiple windows, we assert that being able to spatially arrange...
Desney S. Tan, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
OZCHI
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
AuraOrb: using social awareness cues in the design of progressive notification appliances
One of the problems with notification appliances is that they can be distracting when providing information not of immediate interest to the user. In this paper, we present AuraOr...
Mark Altosaar, Roel Vertegaal, Changuk Sohn, Danie...
HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Encountering SenseCam: personal recording technologies in everyday life
In this paper, we present a study of responses to the idea of being recorded by a ubicomp recording technology called SenseCam. This study focused on real-life situations in two N...
David H. Nguyen, Gabriela Marcu, Gillian R. Hayes,...
SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A biologically inspired generation of virtual characters
A number of techniques for generating geometric models of human head and body are in use nowadays. Models of human characters are useful in computer games, virtual reality, and ma...
Roberto C. Cavalcante Vieira, Creto Augusto Vidal,...