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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
aSister: scheduling for homeless women with special needs
Homeless women need special care and attention especially during pregnancy or while trying to overcome substance abuse. We present a solution to help counselors working with these...
Kshitij Gupta, Adwait Joshi, Jamie Allison McAtee,...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Modeling pointing at targets of arbitrary shapes
We investigate pointing at graphical targets of arbitrary shapes. We first describe a previously proposed probabilistic Fitts' law model [7] which, unlike previous models tha...
Tovi Grossman, Nicholas Kong, Ravin Balakrishnan
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Grounding needs: achieving common ground via lightweight chat in large, distributed, ad-hoc groups
This paper reports on the emergent use of lightweight text chat to provide important grounding and facilitation information in a large, distributed, ad-hoc group of researchers pa...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Thomas A. Finholt, Daniel B. ...
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
If not now, when?: the effects of interruption at different moments within task execution
User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload. Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In ...
Piotr D. Adamczyk, Brian P. Bailey
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Multiblending: displaying overlapping windows simultaneously without the drawbacks of alpha blending
Alpha blending allows the simultaneous display of overlapping windows--such as palette windows in visual workspaces. Although alpha blending has been used in some applications, su...
Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin