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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Attention by proxy? issues in audience awareness for webcasts to distributed groups
Instructor/student interaction in e-learning environments can positively impact both student learning and instructor satisfaction. In online webcast lectures, however, interaction...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Clarissa Mak, Saul Greenberg,...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Quickdraw: the impact of mobility and on-body placement on device access time
We investigate the effect of placement and user mobility on the time required to access an on-body interface. In our study, a wrist-mounted system was significantly faster to acce...
Daniel Ashbrook, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad S...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Accountabilities of presence: reframing location-based systems
How do mobility and presence feature as aspects of social life? Using a case study of paroled offenders tracked via Global Positioning System (GPS), we explore the ways that locat...
Emily Troshynski, Charlotte P. Lee, Paul Dourish
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
LiveRAC: interactive visual exploration of system management time-series data
We present LiveRAC, a visualization system that supports the analysis of large collections of system management timeseries data consisting of hundreds of parameters across thousan...
Peter McLachlan, Tamara Munzner, Eleftherios Kouts...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana
Computer-mediated communication systems can be used to bridge the gap between doctors in underserved regions with local shortages of medical expertise and medical specialists worl...
Rowena Luk, Melissa Ho, Paul M. Aoki
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI
Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is something that brings people together?individuals interact through and around it. Cu...
Andrea Grimes, Richard Harper
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The LilyPad Arduino: using computational textiles to investigate engagement, aesthetics, and diversity in computer science educa
The advent of novel materials (such as conductive fibers) combined with accessible embedded computing platforms have made it possible to re-imagine the landscapes of fabric and el...
Leah Buechley, Michael Eisenberg, Jaime Catchen, A...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Readability of scanned books in digital libraries
Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user's configuration that compound to yield text that is degrade...
Alexander J. Quinn, Chang Hu, Takeshi Arisaka, Ann...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
E-imci: improving pediatric health care in low-income countries
Every year almost 10 million children die before reaching the age of five despite the fact that two-thirds of these deaths could be prevented by effective low-cost interventions. ...
Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan S. Parikh, Clayton...