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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging
Within the last decade, blogs have become an important element of popular culture, mass media, and the daily lives of countless Internet users. Despite the medium's interacti...
Eric Baumer, Mark Sueyoshi, Bill Tomlinson
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Life scheduling to support multiple social roles
We present the results of our study of 15 working parents, and how they manage their life scheduling needs, that is, how they manage their personal and professional schedules acro...
Andrea Grimes, A. J. Bernheim Brush
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups
The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One o...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Gonzalo Ramos, M...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Lean and zoom: proximity-aware user interface and content magnification
The size and resolution of computer displays has increased dramatically, allowing more information than ever to be rendered on-screen. However, items can now be so small or screen...
Chris Harrison, Anind K. Dey
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Communication chains and multitasking
There is a growing literature on managing multitasking and interruptions in the workplace. In an ethnographic study, we investigated the phenomenon of communication chains, the oc...
Norman Makoto Su, Gloria Mark
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dying, death, and mortality: towards thanatosensitivity in HCI
What happens to human-computer "interaction" when the human user is no longer alive? This exploratory paper uses insights from the critical humanist tradition to argue f...
Michael Massimi, Andrea Charise
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Spectator understanding of error in performance
The development of computer-based devices for music control has created a need to study how spectators understand new performance technologies and practices. As a part of a larger...
A. Cavan Fyans, Michael Gurevich, Paul Stapleton
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Designing for all users: including the odd users
The field of HCI has played an important role in broadening the spectrum of users of computational artifacts. However, users with extreme preferences are mostly ignored by the des...
Jina Huh, Mark S. Ackerman
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Associative personal information management
Personal information management (PIM) is an important and hard research problem. Previous systems suffer inflexibility because of strict hierarchies and immobility. I present an a...
Jonathan Diehl
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Investigating web search strategies and forum use to support diet and weight loss
Healthcare is shifting from being reactive to preventive, with a focus on maintaining general wellness through positive decisions on diet, exercise, and lifestyle. In this paper, ...
m. c. schraefel, Ryen W. White, Paul André,...