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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Review spotlight: a user interface for summarizing user-generated reviews using adjective-noun word pairs
Many people read online reviews written by other users to learn more about a product or venue. However, the overwhelming amount of user-generated reviews and variance in length, d...
Koji Yatani, Michael Novati, Andrew Trusty, Khai N...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Target assistance for subtly balancing competitive play
In games where skills such as targeting are critical to winning, it is difficult for players with different skill levels to have a competitive and engaging experience. Although se...
Scott Bateman, Regan L. Mandryk, Tadeusz Stach, Ca...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Some like it hot: thermal feedback for mobile devices
Thermal stimulation is a rich, emotive and salient feedback channel that is well suited to HCI, but one that is yet to be fully investigated. Thermal feedback may be suited to env...
Graham Wilson, Martin Halvey, Stephen A. Brewster,...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Homebrew databases: complexities of everyday information management in nonprofit organizations
Many people manage a complex assortment of digital information in their lives. Volunteer coordinators at nonprofit organizations are no exception; they collectively manage informa...
Amy Voida, Ellie Harmon, Ban Al-Ani
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Modern software product support processes and the usage of multimedia formats
Despite being an important channel for end-user assistance, few studies have directly investigated the interactions that occur in modern-day practice of software product support. ...
Parmit K. Chilana, Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzma...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Classroom-based assistive technology: collective use of interactive visual schedules by students with autism
vSked is an interactive and collaborative assistive technology for students with autism, combining visual schedules, choice boards, and a token-based reward system into an integra...
Meg Cramer, Sen H. Hirano, Monica Tentori, Michael...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequ...
Alexander J. Quinn, Benjamin B. Bederson
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Skim reading by satisficing: evidence from eye tracking
Readers on the Web often skim through text to cope with the volume of available information. In a previous study [11] readers’ eye movements were tracked as they skimmed through...
Geoffrey B. Duggan, Stephen J. Payne
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Evaluating the benefits of 3d stereo in modern video games
We present a study that investigates user performance benefits of 3D stereo in modern video games. Based on an analysis of several video games that are best suited for use with co...
Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Tad Litwiller