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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
"Pimp My Roomba": designing for personalization
We present a study of how householders personalize their domestic vacuuming robot, iRobot’s Roomba™. In particular, we build on Blom and Monk’s [3] theory of personalization...
Ja-Young Sung, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik I. Chris...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
It's not easy being green: understanding home computer power management
Although domestic computer use is increasing, most efforts to reduce energy use through improved power management have focused on computers in the workplace. We studied 20 househo...
Marshini Chetty, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Brian Meyer...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Matchin: eliciting user preferences with an online game
Eliciting user preferences for large datasets and creating rankings based on these preferences has many practical applications in community-based sites. This paper gives a new met...
Severin Hacker, Luis von Ahn
HRI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
I am my robot: the impact of robot-building and robot form on operators
As robots become more pervasive, operators will develop richer relationships with them. In a 2 (robot form: humanoid vs. car) x 2 (assembler: self vs. other) between-participants ...
Victoria Groom, Leila Takayama, Paloma Ochi, Cliff...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Using a multi-touch tabletop for upper extremity motor rehabilitation
Millions of people in Canada have impairments that result in a loss of function and directly affect their ability to carry out activities of daily living. Many individuals with di...
Michelle Annett, Fraser Anderson, Darrell Goertzen...