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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Supporting volunteer activities with mobile social software
Many community organizations rely extensively on volunteer work. However, people who wish to help often have difficulties finding the time to volunteer. We are developing mobile s...
Shaun K. Kane, Predrag V. Klasnja
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Ptz control with head tracking for video chat
This paper describes a user interface for video chat that is capable of panning, tilting, and zooming (PTZ) operation using head tracking. The approach is to map a captured 3D pos...
Kota Yamaguchi, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Large scale analysis of web revisitation patterns
Our work examines Web revisitation patterns. Everybody revisits Web pages, but their reasons for doing so can differ depending on the particular Web page, their topic of interest,...
Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden
Recent advances in small inexpensive sensors, low-power processing, and activity modeling have enabled applications that use on-body sensing and machine learning to infer people&#...
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, M...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Keeping in touch by technology: maintaining friendships after a residential move
Many observers have praised new communication technologies for providing convenient and affordable tools for maintaining relationships at a distance. Yet the precise role of media...
Irina Shklovski, Robert E. Kraut, Jonathon N. Cumm...