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AVI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Scalable Fabric: flexible task management
Our studies have shown that as displays become larger, users leave more windows open for easy multitasking. A larger number of windows, however, may increase the time that users s...
George G. Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Preserving location privacy in wireless lans
The broadcast and tetherless nature of wireless networks and the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots makes it easy to remotely locate a user by observing her wireless signals....
Tao Jiang, Helen J. Wang, Yih-Chun Hu
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Quickdraw: the impact of mobility and on-body placement on device access time
We investigate the effect of placement and user mobility on the time required to access an on-body interface. In our study, a wrist-mounted system was significantly faster to acce...
Daniel Ashbrook, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad S...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
AVIVA: a health and fitness monitor for young women
In this paper we describe AVIVA, a prototype health and fitness monitor for young women. The device helps and encourages the user to balance the many aspects of attaining good hea...
Rachel Gockley, Michael F. Marotta, Carin Rogoff, ...
CHI
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The impact of human-centered features on the usability of a programming system for children
HANDS is a new programming system for children that was designed for usability. This paper examines the effectiveness of three features of HANDS: queries, aggregate operations, an...
John F. Pane, Brad A. Myers