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CHINZ
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Accounting for user familiarity in user interfaces
Previous work discussed a model of cognitive distance with the novel concepts of "tech bias", "velocity" and "inertia". This paper examines the human...
Christiaan A. D'H Gough, Richard Green, Mark Billi...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
UNIFORM: automatically generating consistent remote control user interfaces
A problem with many of today's appliance interfaces is that they are inconsistent. For example, the procedure for setting the time on alarm clocks and VCRs differs, even amon...
Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Brandon Rothrock
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Family accounts: a new paradigm for user accounts within the home environment
In this paper we present Family Accounts, a new user account model for shared home computers. We conducted a study with sixteen families, eight who used individual profiles at hom...
Serge Egelman, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Kori M. Inkpe...
SOUPS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Do windows users follow the principle of least privilege?: investigating user account control practices
The principle of least privilege requires that users and their programs be granted the most restrictive set of privileges possible to perform required tasks in order to limit the ...
Sara Motiee, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov
GROUP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Instant messaging bots: accountability and peripheral participation for textual user interfaces
Over the last several years, studies of instant messaging have observed its increasing role in the workplace[1] and in social situations[2]. We propose that modifying applications...
Stephen Chan, Benjamin Hill, Sarita Yardi