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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Useful junk?: the effects of visual embellishment on comprehension and memorability of charts
Guidelines for designing information charts often state that the presentation should reduce ‗chart junk‘ – visual embellishments that are not essential to understanding the ...
Scott Bateman, Regan L. Mandryk, Carl Gutwin, Aaro...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novi...
Björn Hartmann, Daniel MacDougall, Joel Brand...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting sandtray therapy on an interactive tabletop
We present the iterative design of a virtual sandtray application for a tabletop display. The purpose of our prototype is to support sandtray therapy, a form of art therapy typica...
Mark S. Hancock, Thomas ten Cate, M. Sheelagh T. C...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
UpStream: motivating water conservation with low-cost water flow sensing and persuasive displays
Water is our most precious and most rapidly declining natural resource. We explore pervasive technology as an approach for promoting water conservation in public and private space...
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
pCubee: a perspective-corrected handheld cubic display
In this paper, we describe the design of a personal cubic display that offers novel interaction techniques for static and dynamic 3D content. We extended one-screen Fish Tank VR b...
Ian Stavness, Billy Lam, Sidney Fels
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Friends only: examining a privacy-enhancing behavior in facebook
Privacy practices in social network sites often appear paradoxical, as content-sharing behavior stands in conflict with the need to reduce disclosure-related harms. In this study ...
Fred Stutzman, Jacob Kramer-Duffield
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Fitting an activity-centric system into an ecology of workplace tools
Knowledge workers expend considerable effort managing fragmentation, characterized by constant switching among digital artifacts, when executing work activities. Activitycentric c...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Tara Matthews, Thomas P. Mo...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding usability practices in complex domains
Although usability methods are widely used for evaluating conventional graphical user interfaces and websites, there is a growing concern that current approaches are inadequate fo...
Parmit K. Chilana, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew J. Ko