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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Pollen: promoting the exchange of meaningful objects
One of the most trying aspects of growing old is the loss of loved ones. Older people often experience depression as a result of this reality. Without regular contact from friends...
Stefanie Danhope-Smith, Payaal Patel
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Gait phase effects in mobile interaction
One problem evaluating mobile and wearable devices is that they are used in mobile settings, making it hard to collect usability data. We present a study of tap-based selection of...
Andrew Crossan, Roderick Murray-Smith, Stephen A. ...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Incorporating physical co-presence at events into digital social networking
As mobile devices become location-aware, it will become possible to know when people are physically co-located and to incorporate this information into social software. Is this va...
Scott Counts, John Geraci
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A logic block enabling logic configuration by non-experts in sensor networks
Recent years have seen the evolution of networks of tiny low power computing blocks, known as sensor networks. In one class of sensor networks, a non-expert user, who has little o...
Susan Cotterell, Frank Vahid
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluating an ambient display for the home
We present our experiences with evaluating an ambient display for the home using two different evaluation techniques: the recently proposed `Heuristic Evaluation of Ambient Displa...
Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Towle
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An empirical study of typing rates on mini-QWERTY keyboards
We present a longitudinal study of mini-QWERTY keyboard use, examining the learning rates of novice miniQWERTY users. The study consists of 20 twenty-minute typing sessions using ...
Edward Clarkson, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad S...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Topic spotting common sense translation assistant
Our Translation Assistant applies common sense logic to the problem of translating speech in real time from one language to another. Using speech recognition combined with a softw...
Jae-woo Chung, Rachel Kern, Henry Lieberman
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Behaviour, realism and immersion in games
Immersion is recognised as an important element of good games. However, it is not always clear what is meant by immersion. Earlier work has identified possible barriers to immersi...
Kevin Cheng, Paul A. Cairns
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Visualization in law enforcement
Visualization techniques have proven to be critical in helping crime analysis. By interviewing and observing Criminal Intelligence Officers (CIO) and civilian crime analysts at th...
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Chunju Tseng, Byron...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Context-aware collaborative filtering system: predicting the user's preferences in ubiquitous computing
In this paper I propose a context-aware collaborative filtering system that can predict a user's preference in different context situations based on past user-experiences. Th...
Annie Chen