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CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
MailCall: Message Presentation and Navigation in a Nonvisual Environment
MailCall is a telephone-based messaging system using speech recognition and synthesis. Its nonvisual interaction approaches the usability of visual systems through a combination o...
Matthew Marx, Chris Schmandt
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Structuring Information with Mental Models: A Tour of Boston
We present a new systematic method of structuring information using mental models. This method can be used both to evaluate the efficiency of an information structure and to build...
Ishantha Lokuge, Stephen A. Gilbert, Whitman Richa...
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Gratuitous Graphics? Putting Preferences in Perspective
Rapid growth in 3-D rendering technologies has deluged us with glitzy graphical representations. In what contexts do people find 3-D graphs of 2-D data both attractive and useful?...
Ellen Levy, Jeff Zacks, Barbara Tversky, Diane J. ...
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Sketching Storyboards to Illustrate Interface Behaviors
Current user interface construction tools make it difficult for a user interface designer to illustrate the behavior of an interface. These tools focus on specifying widgets and m...
James A. Landay, Brad A. Myers
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
When Using the Tool Interferes with Doing the Task
How much time the user spends working on a task versus fiddling with the tool is an important aspect of usability. The concept of the ratio and distribution of tool-only operation...
Susan S. Kirschenbaum, Wayne D. Gray, Brian D. Ehr...
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Using Small Screen Space More Efficiently
: This paper describes techniques for maximizing the efficient use of small screen space by combining delayed response with semi-transparency of control objects ("widgets"...
Tomonari Kamba, Shawn A. Elson, Terry Harpold, Tim...
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The Freedom to Work from an Arbitiary Position
We have designed two sets of communication tools to enable telepresence in groups who work in different locations. Afterwards we evaluated the tools. Studie (A), in the first grou...
Britt Jönsson, Anna Schömer, Konrad Toll...
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A Usability Study of Workspace Awareness Widgets
Groupware systems that use large shared workspaces generally provide only limited awareness information about other collaborators in the workspace. We are designing a set of group...
Carl Gutwin, Mark Roseman
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Workspace Awareness Support with Radar Views
Real-time groupware systems often let each participant control their own view into a shared workspace. This strategy can reduce awareness about where and how others are interactin...
Carl Gutwin, Saul Greenberg, Mark Roseman
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Workspace Awareness for Groupware
Shared physical workspaces allow people to maintain upto-the minute knowledge about others' interaction with the workspace. This knowledge is workspace awareness, part of the...
Carl Gutwin, Saul Greenberg