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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code
This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically at how programmers--an exemplar form of knowledge workers--opportunistically interlea...
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira ...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
It's not that important: demoting personal information of low subjective importance using GrayArea
Users find it hard to delete unimportant personal information which often results in cluttered workspaces. We present a full design cycle for GrayArea, a novel interface that allo...
Ofer Bergman, Simon Tucker, Ruth Beyth-Marom, Edwa...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Blobby: how to guide a blind person
For the majority of blind people, walking in unknown places is a very difficult, or even impossible, task to perform, when without help. The adoption of the white cane is the main...
Hugo Nicolau, Joaquim A. Jorge, Tiago João ...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Detecting and tolerating asymmetric races
Because data races represent a hard-to-manage class of errors in concurrent programs, numerous approaches to detect them have been proposed and evaluated. We specifically consider...
Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher, Darko Kiro...
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