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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Identifying social capital in the facebook interface
A number of studies have identified a robust relationship between the use of social network sites, particularly Facebook, and positive outcomes such as social capital. Social netw...
Christian Yoder, Fred Stutzman
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Modeling and predicting pointing errors in two dimensions
Recently, Wobbrock et al. (2008) derived a predictive model of pointing accuracy to complement Fitts’ law’s predictive model of pointing speed. However, their model was based ...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Alex Jansen, Kristen Shinohara
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Deep shot: a framework for migrating tasks across devices using mobile phone cameras
A user task often spans multiple heterogeneous devices, e.g., working on a PC in the office and continuing the work on a laptop or a mobile phone while commuting on a shuttle. How...
Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Yang Li
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of construc...
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
YouPivot: improving recall with contextual search
According to cognitive science literature, human memory is predicated on contextual cues (e.g., room, music) in the environment. During recall tasks, we associate information/acti...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Andrew Warr,...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Bricolage: example-based retargeting for web design
The Web provides a corpus of design examples unparalleled in human history. However, leveraging existing designs to produce new pages is often difficult. This paper introduces th...
Ranjitha Kumar, Jerry O. Talton, Salman Ahmad, Sco...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
MOGCLASS: evaluation of a collaborative system of mobile devices for classroom music education of young children
Composition, listening, and performance are essential activities in classroom music education, yet conventional music classes impose unnecessary limitations on students’ ability...
Yinsheng Zhou, Graham Percival, Xinxi Wang, Ye Wan...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
AnglePose: robust, precise capacitive touch tracking via 3d orientation estimation
We present a finger-tracking system for touch-based interaction which can track 3D finger angle in addition to position, using low-resolution conventional capacitive sensors, th...
Simon Rogers, John Williamson, Craig Stewart, Rode...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
TapBack: towards richer mobile interfaces in impoverished contexts
Much of the mobile work by HCI researchers explores a future world populated by high-end devices and relatively affluent users. This paper turns to consider the hundreds of milli...
Simon Robinson, Nitendra Rajput, Matt Jones, Anupa...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones: values, form and function
By their pervasiveness and by being worn on our bodies, mobile phones seem to have become intrinsic to safety. To examine this proposition, 43 participants, from four stakeholder ...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Amy Iverson, David G. Hendr...