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CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
"Pimp My Roomba": designing for personalization
We present a study of how householders personalize their domestic vacuuming robot, iRobot’s Roomba™. In particular, we build on Blom and Monk’s [3] theory of personalization...
Ja-Young Sung, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik I. Chris...
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
For over a century, citizen scientists have volunteered to collect huge quantities of data for professional scientists to analyze. We designed Pathfinder, an online environment th...
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aar...
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy
The attention economy motivates participation in peerproduced sites on the Web like YouTube and Wikipedia. However, this economy appears to break down at work. We studied a large ...
Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder, Michael J. Brzozows...
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Non-universal usability?: a survey of how usability is understood by Chinese and Danish users
Most research assumes that usability is understood similarly by users in different cultures, implying that the notion of usability, its aspects, and their interrelations are const...
Olaf Frandsen-Thorlacius, Kasper Hornbæk, Mo...
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
PhotoScope: visualizing spatiotemporal coverage of photos for construction management
PhotoScope visualizes the spatiotemporal coverage of photos in a photo collection. It extends the standard photo browsing paradigm in two main ways: visualizing spatial coverage o...
Fuqu Wu, Melanie Tory
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Head-movement evaluation for first-person games
A first-person view is often used in games to enhance players' sense of presence. Camera movements are added to provide a walking sensation when the player is moving around. ...
Paulo Gonçalves de Barros, Robert W. Lindem...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic retargeting of web page content
Ranjitha Kumar, Juho Kim, Scott R. Klemmer
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Dying, death, and mortality: towards thanatosensitivity in HCI
What happens to human-computer "interaction" when the human user is no longer alive? This exploratory paper uses insights from the critical humanist tradition to argue f...
Michael Massimi, Andrea Charise
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Spectator understanding of error in performance
The development of computer-based devices for music control has created a need to study how spectators understand new performance technologies and practices. As a part of a larger...
A. Cavan Fyans, Michael Gurevich, Paul Stapleton