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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
TouchCuts and TouchZoom: enhanced target selection for touch displays using finger proximity sensing
Although touch-screen laptops are increasing in popularity, users still do not comfortably rely on touch in these environments, as current software interfaces were not designed fo...
Xing-Dong Yang, Tovi Grossman, Pourang Irani, Geor...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Magic desk: bringing multi-touch surfaces into desktop work
Despite the prominence of multi-touch technologies, there has been little work investigating its integration into the desktop environment. Bringing multi-touch into desktop comput...
Xiaojun Bi, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George ...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Computing political preference among twitter followers
Through anecdotal evidence and a variety of methods, claims are constantly being made about the bias of media outlets. As many of those outlets create online personas, we seek to ...
Jennifer Golbeck, Derek L. Hansen
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Mediated parent-child contact in work-separated families
Parents and children in families living with regular separation due to work develop strategies to manage being apart. We interviewed 14 pairs of parents and children (ages 7 – 1...
Svetlana Yarosh, Gregory D. Abowd
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Roboshop: multi-layered sketching interface for robot housework assignment and management
As various home robots come into homes, the need for efficient robot task management tools is arising. Current tools are designed for controlling individual robots independently, ...
Kexi Liu, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo ...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Is the media equation a flash in the pan?: the durability and longevity of social responses to computers
Research on social responses to computers often assesses only first-impression reactions during a single experimental session, providing limited knowledge about the lasting effect...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
CommentSpace: structured support for collaborative visual analysis
Collaborative visual analysis tools can enhance sensemaking by facilitating social interpretation and parallelization of effort. These systems enable distributed exploration and e...
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph M. Hellerstei...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Fragile online relationship: a first look at unfollow dynamics in twitter
We analyze the dynamics of the behavior known as ‘unfollow’ in Twitter. We collected daily snapshots of the on
Haewoon Kwak, Hyunwoo Chun, Sue B. Moon
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Experimental analysis of touch-screen gesture designs in mobile environments
Direct-touch interaction on mobile phones revolves around screens that compete for visual attention with users‟ realworld tasks and activities. This paper investigates the impac...
Andrew Bragdon, Eugene Nelson, Yang Li, Ken Hinckl...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Breath control of amusement rides
Emerging robotic technologies are enabling the control of individual seats on rollercoasters and other thrill rides. We explore the potential of breathing as an effective and enga...
Joe Marshall, Duncan Rowland, Stefan Rennick Eggle...