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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
iCanDraw: using sketch recognition and corrective feedback to assist a user in drawing human faces
When asked to draw, many people are hesitant because they consider themselves unable to draw well. This paper describes the first system for a computer to provide direction and fe...
Daniel Dixon, Manoj Prasad, Tracy Hammond
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Average task times in usability tests: what to report?
The distribution of task time data in usability studies is positively skewed. Practitioners who are aware of this positive skew tend to report the sample median. Monte Carlo simul...
Jeff Sauro, James R. Lewis
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How power users help and hinder open bug reporting
Many power users that contribute to open source projects have no intention of becoming regular contributors; they just want a bug fixed or a feature implemented. How often do thes...
Andrew J. Ko, Parmit K. Chilana
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Prefab: implementing advanced behaviors using pixel-based reverse engineering of interface structure
Current chasms between applications implemented with different user interface toolkits make it difficult to implement and explore potentially important interaction techniques in n...
Morgan Dixon, James Fogarty
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
GUI testing using computer vision
Testing a GUI’s visual behavior typically requires human testers to interact with the GUI and to observe whether the expected results of interaction are presented. This paper pr...
Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Tom Yeh, Robert C. Miller
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A strategy-centric approach to the design of end-user debugging tools
End-user programmers’ code is notoriously buggy. This problem is amplified by the increasing complexity of end users’ programs. To help end users catch errors early and reliab...
Valentina Grigoreanu, Margaret M. Burnett, George ...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Sharing conversation and sharing life: video conferencing in the home
Video conferencing is a technology that families and friends use to connect with each other over distance. However, even with such technology readily available, we still do not ha...
Tejinder K. Judge, Carman Neustaedter
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Mobile taskflow in context: a screenshot study of smartphone usage
The impact of interruptions on workflow and productivity has been extensively studied in the PC domain, but while fragmented user attention is recognized as an inherent aspect of ...
Amy K. Karlson, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Brian Meyers, Gon...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
iCon: utilizing everyday objects as additional, auxiliary and instant tabletop controllers
This work describes a novel approach to utilizing everyday objects of users as additional, auxiliary, and instant tabletop controllers. Based on this approach, a prototype platfor...
Kai-Yin Cheng, Rong-Hao Liang, Bing-Yu Chen, Rung-...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The design and evaluation of multitouch marking menus
Despite the considerable quantity of research directed towards multitouch technologies, a set of standardized UI components have not been developed. Menu systems provide a particu...
G. Julian Lepinski, Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzm...