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ASSETS
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Conversational Gestures for Direct Manipulation on the Audio Desktop
We describe the speech-enabling approach to building auditory interfaces that treat speech as a first-class modality. The process of designing effective auditory interfaces is de...
T. V. Raman
ASSETS
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Simulation to predict performance of assistive interfaces
Computers offer valuable assistance to people with physical disabilities. However designing human-computer interfaces for these users is complicated. The range of abilities is mor...
Pradipta Biswas, Peter Robinson
ASSETS
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone
We demonstrate a system designed to assist a visually impaired individual while moving in an unfamiliar environment. Small and economical color markers are placed in key locations...
Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan
CANDT
2009
15 years 10 months ago
Toward an analytic framework for understanding and fostering peer-support communities in using and evolving software products
The fundamental challenge for social computing is to contribute to fostering communities in which humans can transcend the limitation of the unaided, individual human mind by help...
Andrew Gorman, Gerhard Fischer
CANDT
2009
15 years 10 months ago
Communities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activists
In this paper, I describe how various understandings of community activated the design of Dialup Radio, a mobile phonebased independent media distribution system for Zimbabwean ci...
Tad Hirsch