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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Being watched or being special: how I learned to stop worrying and love being monitored, surveilled, and assessed
This paper explores the relationship between display of feedback (public vs. private) by a computer system and the basis for evaluation (present vs. absent) of that feedback. We e...
Erica Robles, Abhay Sukumaran, Kathryn Rickertsen,...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Searching in audio: the utility of transcripts, dichotic presentation, and time-compression
Searching audio data can potentially be facilitated by the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology to generate text transcripts which can then be easily queried. Howe...
Abhishek Ranjan, Ravin Balakrishnan, Mark H. Chign...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Beyond record and play: backpacks: tangible modulators for kinetic behavior
Digital Manipulatives embed computation in familiar children's toys and provide means for children to design behavior. Some systems use "record and play" as a form ...
Hayes Raffle, Amanda J. Parkes, Hiroshi Ishii, Jos...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Increasing user decision accuracy using suggestions
The internet presents people with an increasingly bewildering variety of choices. Online consumers have to rely on computerized search tools to find the most preferred option in a...
Pearl Pu, Paolo Viappiani, Boi Faltings
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An evaluation of using programming by demonstration and guided walkthrough techniques for authoring and utilizing documentation
Much existing documentation is informal and serves to communicate "how-to" knowledge among restricted working groups. Using current practices, such documentation is both...
Madhu Prabaker, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Cast...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Adaptive language behavior in HCI: how expectations and beliefs about a system affect users' word choice
People display adaptive language behaviors in face-to-face conversations, but will computer users do the same during HCI? We report an experiment (N=20) demonstrating that users&#...
Jamie Pearson, Jiang Hu, Holly P. Branigan, Martin...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Sashay: designing for wonderment
No longer confined to our offices, schools, and homes, technology is expanding at an astonishing rate across our everyday public urban landscapes. From the visible (mobile phones,...
Eric Paulos, Chris Beckmann
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Everyday practices with mobile video telephony
The mobile phone allowed people to communicate when and where they wanted, dramatically changing how audio telephony was integrated into daily life. With video telephony services ...
Kenton O'Hara, Alison Black, Matthew Lipson
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The paradox of the assisted user: guidance can be counterproductive
This paper investigates the influence of interface styles on problem solving performance. It is often assumed that performance on problem solving tasks improves when users are ass...
Christof van Nimwegen, Daniel D. Burgos, Herre van...