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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Dealing with death in design: developing systems for the bereaved
Increasingly, systems are being developed and used in ways that involve end of life issues such as death, dying, and bereavement. Yet design considerations and guidelines for tech...
Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Materializing the query with facet-streams: a hybrid surface for collaborative search on tabletops
We introduce “Facet-Streams”, a hybrid interactive surface for co-located collaborative product search on a tabletop. Facet-Streams combines techniques of information visualiz...
Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Gerken, Michael Zö...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Competing online viewpoints and models of chronic illness
People with chronic health problems use online resources to understand and manage their condition, but many such resources can present competing and confusing viewpoints. We surve...
Jennifer Mankoff, Kateryna Kuksenok, Sara B. Kiesl...