CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
One of the core challenges now facing smart rooms is supporting realistic, everyday activities. While much research has been done to push forward the frontiers of novel interactio...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
We introduce a technique for exploring multi-layered images by scraping arbitrary areas to determine meaningful relationships. Our system, called Wetpaint, uses perceptual depth c...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Copy and move operations have long been supported by interactive desktops through various means. But the growing number of on-screen objects makes these means harder to use. In th...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Little attention has been given to how citizens use technology to be resilient when their country is at war. We report on an ethnographic interview study of how technology was ado...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Community-based question and answer (Q&A) systems facilitate information exchange and enable the creation of reusable knowledge repositories. While these systems are growing i...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
In this paper, we argue that HCI practitioners are facing new challenges in design and evaluation that can benefit from the establishment of commonly valued use qualities, with as...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Tabletop and tangible interfaces are often described in terms of their support for shared access to digital resources. However, it is not always the case that collaborators want t...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
The idea of interactional trajectories through interfaces has emerged as a sensitizing concept from recent studies of tangible interfaces and interaction in museums and galleries....
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
A key challenge for mixed-initiative systems is to create a shared understanding of the task between human and agent. To address this challenge, we created a mixed-initiative inte...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper offers an exploration of the attitudes of older adults to keeping in touch with people who are important to them. We present findings from three focus groups with peopl...