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ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems
CityFlocks is a mobile system enabling visitors and new residents in a city to tap into the knowledge and experiences of local residents, so as to gather information about their n...
Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Alexander De Luca
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
More than meets the eye: transforming the user experience of home network management
As computing migrates from the workplace to the home, householders must tackle problems of home network maintenance. Often they lack the technical knowledge or motivation to compl...
Erika Shehan Poole, Marshini Chetty, Rebecca E. Gr...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Constructivism, virtual reality and tools to support design
This paper describes a process for creating a design tool, which is based in constructivism. The process is described for the creation of a tool to help novices in designing virtu...
Cara Winterbottom, Edwin H. Blake
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Supporting cooperative teamwork: information, action and communication in sailing
This paper provides details of an in-depth investigation into how racing sailors use information displays and devices, and shows that these devices act as communication loci and i...
Russell Beale
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Sharing digital photographs in the home through physical mementos, souvenirs, and keepsakes
People now easily share digital photos outside the home via web publishing and gift-giving. Yet within the home, digital photos are hard to access and lack the physical affordance...
Michael Nunes, Saul Greenberg, Carman Neustaedter
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Flutter: directed random browsing of photo collections with a tangible interface
Large collections of photographs are commonplace, and many interfaces for viewing, sorting and organizing them have been proposed. This work describes the design and implementatio...
John Williamson, Lorna M. Brown
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Zebra: exploring users' engagement in fieldwork
Participatory Design is a design approach that provides a popular set of techniques for designing interactive systems in collaboration with end-users. Technology probes are one of...
Yann Riche, Matthew Simpson, Stephen Viller
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Designing for nomadic work
Norman Makoto Su, Gloria Mark
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Photo displays in the home
This paper examines an under explored area of digital photography, namely photo display. Using examples from a study undertaken with six families, we examine photo displays on man...
Laurel Swan, Alex S. Taylor