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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Revisiting usability's three key principles
The foundations of much HCI research and practice were established over 20 years ago and elaborated as three key principles by Gould and Lewis [7]: early focus on users and tasks ...
Gilbert Cockton
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Twend: twisting and bending as new interaction gesture in mobile devices
In this work we present a hardware prototype that uses bending gestures as input for a mobile device and experimental setups that compare possible gestures with other, more tradit...
Gero Herkenrath, Thorsten Karrer, Jan Borchers
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A survey of collaborative web search practices
Todays Web browsers provide limited support for rich information-seeking and information-sharing scenarios. A survey we conducted of 204 knowledge workers at a large technology co...
Meredith Ringel Morris
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Fitts' throughput and the speed-accuracy tradeoff
We describe an experiment to test the hypothesis that Fitts' throughput is independent of the speed-accuracy tradeoff. Eighteen participants used a mouse in performing a tota...
I. Scott MacKenzie, Poika Isokoski
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Automatic whiteout++: correcting mini-QWERTY typing errors using keypress timing
By analyzing features of users' typing, Automatic Whiteout++ detects and corrects up to 32.37% of the errors made by typists while using a mini?QWERTY (RIM Blackberry style) ...
James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Alex Rudnick, Robert A....
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The personal project planner: planning to organize personal information
Prototyping and evaluation combine to explore ways that an effective, integrative organization of project-related information might emerge as a by-product of a person's effor...
William Jones, Predrag V. Klasnja, Andrea Civan, M...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Aligning temporal data by sentinel events: discovering patterns in electronic health records
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and other temporal databases contain hidden patterns that reveal important cause-and-effect phenomena. Finding these patterns is a challenge when ...
Taowei David Wang, Catherine Plaisant, Alexander J...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia
Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitari...
Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, Jacqueline Pike
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Sonic interventions: understanding and extending the domestic soundscape
This paper presents a new study of the role, importance and meaning of sound in the home. Drawing on interview data and sound recordings gathered from seven households, this study...
Gerard Oleksik, David Frohlich, Lorna M. Brown, Ab...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving meeting capture by applying television production principles with audio and motion detection
Video recordings of meetings are often monotonous and tedious to watch. In this paper, we report on the design, implementation and evaluation of an automated meeting capture syste...
Abhishek Ranjan, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Ravin Balakr...