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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Pottering: a design-oriented investigation
In this paper we examine a ubiquitous yet overlooked aspect of home-life, pottering. The Oxford English Dictionary defines pottering as "To occupy oneself in an ineffectual o...
Susan Wyche, Alex S. Taylor, Joseph Kaye
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The state of tangible interfaces: projects, studies, and open issues
In recent years, the CHI community has seen growth in projects that involve tangible user interfaces and tangible interaction. But, many researchers feel that this emerging field ...
Oren Zuckerman, Brygg Ullmer, Lars Erik Holmquist,...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Technological approaches to promoting physical activity
This paper reflects on the HCI community’s current and potential contributions to the problem of promoting physical activity. It does so by first presenting a conceptual overvie...
Julie Maitland, Katie A. Siek
IROS
2009
IEEE
155views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Gendered voice and robot entities: Perceptions and reactions of male and female subjects
— There is recent evidence that males and females view robots differently, from the way robots are conceptualized, to the way humans respond when they interact with them. In this...
Charles R. Crowelly, Michael Villanoy, Matthias Sc...
ECAL
2007
Springer
16 years 23 days ago
Protolanguages That Are Semi-holophrastic
There is an ongoing debate about whether the words in the first languages spoken by humans expressed single concepts or complex holophrases. A computer model was used to investigat...
Mike Dowman