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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
User-centered design gymkhana
The User-centered design (UCD) Gymkhana is a tool for human-computer interaction practitioners to demonstrate through a game the key user-centered design methods and how they inte...
Muriel Garreta Domingo, Magí Almirall Hill,...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Range: exploring proxemics in collaborative whiteboard interaction
Range is an interactive whiteboard designed to support collocated, ad-hoc meetings. It employs proximity sensing to proactively transition between ambient and authoring modes, cle...
Wendy Ju, Brian Lee, Scott R. Klemmer
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing tangibles for children: what designers need to know
New forms of tangible and spatial child computer interaction and supporting technologies can be designed to leverage the way children develop intelligence in the world. In order t...
Alissa Nicole Antle
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The use of aesthetics in HCI systems
As computing expands its domain from workplace to pervasive and domestic environments, interest in aesthetics for designing is increasing in HCI. HCI literatures in aesthetics pro...
Jina Huh, Mark S. Ackerman, Robert Douglas
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Porta-person: telepresence for the connected conference room
This paper describes a telepresence device called PortaPerson. This is the first project in a larger initiative known as the Connected Conference Room, which aims to improve the u...
Nicole Yankelovich, Nigel Simpson, Jonathan Kaplan...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Enabling nutrition-aware cooking in a smart kitchen
We present a smart kitchen that can enhance the traditional meal preparation and cooking process by raising awareness of the nutrition facts in food ingredients that go into a mea...
Pei-yu Chi, Jen-hao Chen, Hao-Hua Chu, Bing-Yu Che...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Exploring the use of large displays in american megachurches
Within the HCI community, there is a growing interest in how technology is used and appropriated outside the workplace. In this paper, we present preliminary findings of how large...
Susan Wyche, Yevgeniy Eugene Medynskiy, Rebecca E....
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An extensible platform for the interactive exploration of Fitts' Law and related movement time models
This paper describes a new software platform for the interactive exploration of human performance models such as Fitts' law. The software is written in Java and provides a fl...
Martin J. Schedlbauer
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Devices as interactive physical containers: the shoogle system
Shoogle is a novel interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploratio...
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith, Stephen Hu...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Providing affective information to family and friends based on social networks
We are developing a computer system which provides information about babies in neonatal intensive care to family members and friends. A key challenge is deciding what information ...
Wendy Moncur