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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Crowd computer interaction
HCI has moved from considering how individuals interact with computers to thinking about how groups collaborate using technology. While there has been research focused on large-sc...
Barry A. T. Brown, Kenton O'Hara, Tim Kindberg, Am...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Improving with age: designing enduring interactive products
This study explores people's relationships with digital and non-digital objects in the home--with an eye toward the ways in which products improve rather than deteriorate ove...
William Odom, James Pierce
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing interfaces for presentation of opinion diversity
News aggregators rely on links and users votes to select and present subsets of the large quantity of news and opinion items generated each day. Opinion diversity in the output se...
Sean A. Munson, Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Give peace a chance: a call to design technologies for peace
Peace is an extremely important value for humankind, yet it has been largely ignored by the computing and human-computer interaction community. This paper seeks to begin a discuss...
Juan Pablo Hourcade
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Tactful calling: urgency-augmented phone calls through high-resolution pressure input on mobile phones
In this paper we present a system that simulates urgency-augmented phone calls on mobile phones. Different scenarios and interaction techniques are discussed. We report a user stu...
Fabian Hemmert, Matthias Löwe, Anne Wohlauf, ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Acquiring a professional "second life": problems and prospects for the use of virtual worlds in business
The current surge of interest in virtual worlds suggests they are poised to make an evolutionary leap to the workplace, as instant messaging did a decade ago. In recent work we ha...
Jason B. Ellis, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Waterhouse: enabling secure e-mail with social networking
We present Waterhouse, a system for sending and receiving cryptographically protected electronic mail ("secure e-mail"). We show how an existing e-mail interface can be ...
Alex P. Lambert, Stephen M. Bezek, Karrie Karahali...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CubeBrowser: a cognitive adapter to explore media databases
CubeBrowser is the concept study for a six-display cube with digital screens that makes it possible to browse online databases like flickr. The control of navigation is exclusivel...
Ludwig Zeller, Lasse Scherffig
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Studying appropriation of everyday technologies: a cognitive approach
The ways in which users appropriate uses of technology ? or invent new ones ? have attracted interest in CSCW-oriented research, but much less has been written on its cognitive fo...
Antti Salovaara
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Supporting the design of network-spanning applications
In this case study, we describe our use of ECT, a tool intended to simplify the design and development of network-spanning applications. We have used ECT throughout the course of ...
Stefan Rennick Egglestone, Andy Boucher, Tom Rodde...