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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Interaction in creative tasks
The design of tools for creative activities affects the creative processes and output of users. In this paper we consider how an understanding of creative interaction can inform t...
Tim Coughlan, Peter Johnson
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Using intelligent task routing and contribution review to help communities build artifacts of lasting value
Many online communities are emerging that, like Wikipedia, bring people together to build community-maintained artifacts of lasting value (CALVs). Motivating people to contribute ...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Loren G. Terveen, John...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Faster document navigation with space-filling thumbnails
Scrolling is the standard way to navigate through many types of digital documents. However, moving more than a few pages can be slow because all scrolling techniques constrain vis...
Andy Cockburn, Carl Gutwin, Jason Alexander
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Error correction of voicemail transcripts in SCANMail
Despite its widespread use, voicemail presents numerous usability challenges: People must listen to messages in their entirety, they cannot search by keywords, and audio files do ...
Moira Burke, Brian Amento, Philip L. Isenhour
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
groupTime: preference based group scheduling
As our business, academic, and personal lives continue to move at an ever-faster pace, finding times for busy people to meet has become an art. One of the most perplexing challeng...
Mike Brzozowski, Kendra Carattini, Scott R. Klemme...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The television will be revolutionized: effects of PVRs and filesharing on television watching
This paper investigates television-watching practices amongst early adopters of personal hard-disk video recorders (PVRs such as TiVotm ) and Internet downloading of shows. Throug...
Barry Brown, Louise Barkhuus
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Barista: An implementation framework for enabling new tools, interaction techniques and views in code editors
Recent advances in programming environments have focused on improving programmer productivity by utilizing the inherent structure in computer programs. However, because these envi...
Andrew Jensen Ko, Brad A. Myers
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Accounting for taste: using profile similarity to improve recommender systems
Recommender systems have been developed to address the abundance of choice we face in taste domains (films, music, restaurants) when shopping or going out. However, consumers curr...
Philip Bonhard, Clare Harries, John D. McCarthy, M...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Olfoto: designing a smell-based interaction
We present a study into the use of smell for searching digital photo collections. Many people now have large photo libraries on their computers and effective search tools are need...
Stephen A. Brewster, David K. McGookin, Christophe...