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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Ri-Ri: assisting bus conductors in madras (chennai)
In this paper, we present a tool to increase the efficiency of public transport buses inside the metropolitan city of Madras (Chennai) in South India. The amount of people droppin...
Arvind Ashok, Christian M. Beck, Nick Quagliara
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 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
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Touch: sensitive apparel
Touch?Sensitive is a haptic apparel that allows massage therapy to be diffused, customized and controlled by people while on the move. It provides individuals with a sensory cocoo...
Cati Vaucelle, Yasmine Abbas
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CarLoop: leveraging common ground to develop long-term carpools
We developed and tested a website and public display to connect and sustain carpoolers in the workplace. We arrived at this design through study of traffic congestion and its caus...
Joshua Morse, Joshua Palay, Yarun Luon, Satyendra ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Design and evaluation of 3d models for electronic dental records
We present the results of a field study of some of the work practices and software used by dentists. We also present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a user interface...
Michael F. Marotta, Purin Phanichphant, Patrick Ma...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Location, location, location: a study of bluejacking practices
We present an initial exploration of bluejacking, the practice of using Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones to send unsolicited messages to other Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones withi...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Alex Ainslie, Geri Gay
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
BlogCentral: the role of internal blogs at work
This paper describes a preliminary investigation into an internal corporate blogging community called BlogCentral. We conducted semi-structured interviews with fourteen active blo...
Jina Huh, Lauretta Jones, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Music organisation using colour synaesthesia
The movement of music from physical discs to digital resources managed on a computer has had an effect on the listening habits of users. We explore using the potential of the inna...
Michael Voong, Russell Beale
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Sounding board: a handheld device for mutual assessment in education
We are developing a set of handheld input devices for mutual assessment in the course of a learning activity and a system to give on-the-spot feedback concerning the summary of th...
Jun Yamashita, Hiroshi Kato, Toshiaki Ichimaru, Hi...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Computer aided observations of complex mobile situations
Designing mobile and wearable applications is a challenge. The context of use is more important than ever and traditional methodologies for elicitation and specification reach the...
Tobias Klug