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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience
We examine how ambient displays can augment social television. Social TV 2 is an interactive television solution that incorporates two ambient displays to convey to participants a...
Gunnar Harboe, Crysta J. Metcalf, Frank Bentley, J...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana
Computer-mediated communication systems can be used to bridge the gap between doctors in underserved regions with local shortages of medical expertise and medical specialists worl...
Rowena Luk, Melissa Ho, Paul M. Aoki
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The effects of empathetic virtual characters on presence in narrative-centered learning environments
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role that narrative can play in learning. With the emergence of narrative-centered learning environments that engage students by d...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Les...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI
Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is something that brings people together?individuals interact through and around it. Cu...
Andrea Grimes, Richard Harper
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Video browsing by direct manipulation
We present a method for browsing videos by directly dragging their content. This method brings the benefits of direct manipulation to an activity typically mediated by widgets. We...
Pierre Dragicevic, Gonzalo Ramos, Jacobo Bibliowit...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Threshold devices: looking out from the home
Threshold devices present information gathered from the home's surroundings to give new views on the domestic situation. We built two prototypes of different threshold device...
William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pe...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
SearchBar: a search-centric web history for task resumption and information re-finding
Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...
Dan Morris, Meredith Ringel Morris, Gina Venolia
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Indirect mappings of multi-touch input using one and two hands
Touchpad and touchscreen interaction using multiple fingers is emerging as a valuable form of high-degree-of-freedom input. While bimanual interaction has been extensively studied...
Tomer Moscovich, John F. Hughes
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
LivOlay: interactive ad-hoc registration and overlapping of applications for collaborative visual exploration
The interoperability of disparate data types and sources has been a long standing problem and a hindering factor for the efficacy and efficiency in visual exploration applications...
Hao Jiang, Daniel Wigdor, Clifton Forlines, Michel...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time)
Current practice in Human Computer Interaction as encouraged by educational institutes, academic review processes, and institutions with usability groups advocate usability evalua...
Saul Greenberg, William Buxton