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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
When participants do the capturing: the role of media in diary studies
In this paper, we investigate how the choice of media for capture and access affects the diary study method. The diary study is a method of understanding participant behavior and ...
Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff
DAGSTUHL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
What Not to Do When Writing an Interpreter for Specialisation
A partial evaluator, given a program and a known "static" part of its input data, outputs a specialised or residual program in which computations depending only on the st...
Neil D. Jones
ECSCW
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Sharing To-Do Lists with a Distributed Task Manager
: We describe a simple and powerful tool for the management of distributed work: the Task Manager. Common tasks may be shared and manipulated independently by a number of people. T...
Thomas Kreifelts, Elke Hinrichs, Gerd Woetzel
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Automating To-Do Lists for Users: Interpretation of To-Dos for Selecting and Tasking Agents
To-do lists have been found to be the most popular personal information management tools, yet there is no automated system to interpret and act upon them when appropriate on behal...
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
If not now, when?: the effects of interruption at different moments within task execution
User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload. Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In ...
Piotr D. Adamczyk, Brian P. Bailey