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CSCW
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Assistance: the work practices of human administrative assistants and their implications for it and organizations
Assistance – work carried out by one entity in support of another – is a concept of long-standing interest, both as a type of human work common in organizations and as a model...
Thomas Erickson, Catalina M. Danis, Wendy A. Kello...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Enhancing ubiquitous computing with user interpretation: field testing the home health horoscope
Domestic ubiquitous computing systems often rely on inferences about activities in the home, but the open-ended, dynamic and heterogeneous nature of the home poses serious problem...
William W. Gaver, Phoebe Sengers, Tobie Kerridge, ...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Finding the lost treasure: understanding reuse of used computing devices
In this paper, we report our findings on the adoption practices of used personal digital assistants (PDAs) to inform reuse of outdated computing products. Our interviews with 12 e...
Jina Huh, Kevin Nam, Nikhil Sharma
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game
Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem ...
Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran L...
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ISWC
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Using Wearable Computers to Construct Semantic Representations of Physical Spaces
The representation of physical space has traditionally focused on keyphrases such as “Computer Science Building” or “Physics Department” that help us in describing and nav...
Fernando Diaz