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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Estimating human interruptibility in the home for remote communication
This paper presents a method for automatically estimating human interruptibility in home environments. To make online remote communication smoother, determining if it is appropria...
Yoshinao Takemae, Takehiko Ohno, Ikuo Yoda, Shinji...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Utilizing mobile phones as ambient information displays
Mobile phones have become a ubiquitous technology and for many people a daily companion, primarily used for communication and information access. The fact that the phone is accomp...
Albrecht Schmidt, Jonna Häkkilä, Richard...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing for collective remembering
This paper outlines the rationale for the workshop topic and offers an overview of its objectives. Keywords Collective memories, episodic memory, memory technology, interaction de...
Corina Sas, Alan J. Dix
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Unified associative information storage and retrieval
We present a novel system for performing information management in a unified manner. Users currently must manage large amounts of data which may be fragmented across file formats ...
Brandon Rothrock, Brad A. Myers, Sophie H. Wang
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The ChiCI group
This paper describes the work, the vision, and the approach of the Child Computer Interaction (ChiCI) group at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. This group, formed f...
Janet C. Read, Stuart MacFarlane, Rebecca Kelly, E...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Universal design for mobile phones: a case study
In this paper we describe a case study of Universal Design applied to mobile phone physical devices. Using a user-centered design process, we tried to integrate visually-impaired,...
Ornella Plos, Stéphanie Buisine
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Disruption of meetings by laptop use: is there a 10-second solution?
We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding of the sources of disruption when laptops are present. We videotaped five workplace meetings in which over 600 infor...
William Newman, Ethan L. Smith
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-touch interaction
Many everyday activities rely on our hands' ability to deftly control the physical attributes of objects. Most graphical interfaces only use the hand's position as input...
Tomer Moscovich
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
MultiVis: improving access to visualisations for visually impaired people
This paper illustrates work undertaken on the MultiVis project to allow visually impaired users both to construct and browse mathematical graphs effectively. We start by discussin...
David K. McGookin, Stephen A. Brewster
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Design of a role-playing game to study the trajectories of health care workers in an operating room
Drawing on an ethnographic study of hospital work in an operating room, we present the design and implementation of a web-based role-playing application of a master schedule. We s...
Elisa Mattarelli, Kelly J. Fadel, Suzanne P. Weisb...