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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Side effects and "gateway" tools: advocating a broader look at evaluating persuasive systems
This paper argues for evaluating the impact of persuasive systems on users beyond metrics that focus on system usage, based on an interview study of 16 Wii Fit users. While explor...
Victoria Schwanda, Steven Ibara, Lindsay Reynolds,...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
The polymath project: lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics
Although science is becoming increasingly collaborative, there are remarkably few success stories of online collaborations between professional scientists that actually result in ...
Justin Cranshaw, Aniket Kittur
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
DoubleFlip: a motion gesture delimiter for mobile interaction
To make motion gestures more widely adopted on mobile devices it is important that devices be able to distinguish between motion intended for mobile interaction and everyday motio...
Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Publics in practice: ubiquitous computing at a shelter for homeless mothers
Today, commodity technologies like mobile phones—once symbols of status and wealth—have become deeply woven into social and economic participation in Western society. Despite ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Robert G. Farrell, Jim C...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Guess who?: enriching the social graph through a crowdsourcing game
Despite the tremendous popularity of social network sites both on the web and within enterprises, the relationship information they contain may be often incomplete or outdated. We...
Ido Guy, Adam Perer, Tal Daniel, Ohad Greenshpan, ...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Xpaaand: interaction techniques for rollable displays
Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi, Roman Lissermann, Max M&...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Active reading and its discontents: the situations, problems and ideas of readers
The increasing popularity of personal reading devices raises the question of how best to support so-called active reading, which involves acts like annotation, note taking, etc. P...
Craig S. Tashman, W. Keith Edwards
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
HyperSource: bridging the gap between source and code-related web sites
Programmers frequently use the Web while writing code: they search for libraries, code examples, tutorials, and documentation. This link between code and visited Web pages remains...
Björn Hartmann, Mark Dhillon, Matthew K. Chan
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Home automation in the wild: challenges and opportunities
Visions of smart homes have long caught the attention of researchers and considerable effort has been put toward enabling home automation. However, these technologies have not bee...
A. J. Bernheim Brush, Bongshin Lee, Ratul Mahajan,...