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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
SciNews online: scaffolding the construction of scientific explanations
Middle and high-school science teachers have traditionally introduced current events in the classroom to leverage news topics relevant to the curriculum, such as the Sumatra Tsuna...
Sebastian de la Chica
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The use of aesthetics in HCI systems
As computing expands its domain from workplace to pervasive and domestic environments, interest in aesthetics for designing is increasing in HCI. HCI literatures in aesthetics pro...
Jina Huh, Mark S. Ackerman, Robert Douglas
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Content-aware layout
We describe content-aware layout (CAL), a technique that automatically arranges windows on a user's desktop. Unlike conventional window managers that automatically cascade or...
Edward W. Ishak, Steven Feiner
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Porta-person: telepresence for the connected conference room
This paper describes a telepresence device called PortaPerson. This is the first project in a larger initiative known as the Connected Conference Room, which aims to improve the u...
Nicole Yankelovich, Nigel Simpson, Jonathan Kaplan...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Enabling nutrition-aware cooking in a smart kitchen
We present a smart kitchen that can enhance the traditional meal preparation and cooking process by raising awareness of the nutrition facts in food ingredients that go into a mea...
Pei-yu Chi, Jen-hao Chen, Hao-Hua Chu, Bing-Yu Che...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Usability on patrol
Maria Callander, Lorna Zorman
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
EventStream: integrated transit information system
Pin Sym Foong, Vincent Diaz Jr., Aaron R. Houssian...