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CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A physical interface for system dynamics simulation
We present the System Blocks, a new physical interactive system that makes it easier for kids to explore dynamic systems. A set of computationally enhanced children blocks, made o...
Oren Zuckerman, Mitchel Resnick
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
MyInfo: a personal news interface
John Zimmerman, Nevenka Dimitrova, Lalitha Agnihot...
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The effectiveness of multiscale collaboration in virtual environments
Adding multiscale capabilities to collaborative virtual environments can potentially help people work on very large electronic worlds. Our experiment shows that user performance o...
Xiaolong Zhang, George W. Furnas
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
City lights: contextual views in minimal space
City Lights are space-efficient fisheye techniques that provide contextual views along the borders of windows and subwindows that describe unseen objects in all directions. We pre...
Polle Zellweger, Jock D. Mackinlay, Lance Good, Ma...
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An unencumbering, localized olfactory display
Olfaction is considered to be an important sensory modality in next-generation virtual reality (VR) systems. We currently focus on spatiotemporal control of odor, rather than capt...
Yasuyuki Yanagida, Haruo Noma, Nobuji Tetsutani, A...
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The benefits of physical edges in gesture-making: empirical support for an edge-based unistroke alphabet
People with motor impairments often cannot use a keyboard or a mouse. Our previous work showed that a handheld device, connected to a PC, could be effective for computer access fo...
Jacob O. Wobbrock
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing effective haptic interaction: inverted damping
In this paper, we describe a new force-feedback technique termed "inverted damping", which aids users in manually selecting specific items from within a range of possibl...
Jason Williams, Georg Michelitsch
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An hour in the life: towards requirements for modelling multiple task work
It is accepted that changes in technology, work practices and the general socio-economic environment affect the way we plan and perform tasks. Support, opportunity and pressure fo...
Peter J. Wild, Peter Johnson, Hilary Johnson
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Conversation thumbnails for large-scale discussions
We present a new interface for large-scale online conversations. Our technique, the Conversation Thumbnail, differs from existing discussion interfaces in two respects. First, it ...
Martin Wattenberg, David R. Millen
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Assessing haptic properties for data representation
This paper describes the results of a series of forced choice design experiments investigating the discrimination of material properties using a PHANToM haptic device. Research ha...
Steven A. Wall, Stephen A. Brewster