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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused ...
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, ...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Tweets from Justin Bieber's heart: the dynamics of the location field in user profiles
Little research exists on one of the most common, oldest, and most utilized forms of online social geographic information: the “location” field found in most virtual community...
Brent Hecht, Lichan Hong, Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
In the shadow of misperception: assistive technology use and social interactions
Few research studies focus on how the use of assistive technologies is affected by social interaction among people. We present an interview study of 20 individuals to determine ho...
Kristen Shinohara, Jacob O. Wobbrock
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Security through a different kind of obscurity: evaluating distortion in graphical authentication schemes
While a large body of research on image-based authentication has focused on memorability, comparatively less attention has been paid to the new security challenges these schemes m...
Eiji Hayashi, Jason Hong, Nicolas Christin
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Comparing activity theory with distributed cognition for video analysis: beyond "kicking the tires"
The field of HCI is growing, not only in the variety of application areas or the volume of research conducted, but also in the number of analytical approaches for use in the evalu...
Eric P. S. Baumer, Bill Tomlinson
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Evaluating video visualizations of human behavior
Previously, we presented Viz-A-Vis, a VIsualiZation of Activity through computer VISion [17]. Viz-A-Vis visualizes behavior as aggregate motion over observation space. In this pap...
Mario Romero, Alice Vialard, John Peponis, John T....
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
No clicks, no problem: using cursor movements to understand and improve search
Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Playable data: characterizing the design space of game-y infographics
This work explores the intersection between infographics and games by examining how to embed meaningful visual analytic interactions into game mechanics that in turn impact user b...
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Funda Kivran-Swaine, Mor Naa...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Family portals: connecting families through a multifamily media space
Video conferencing allows distance-separated family members to interact somewhat akin to being together at the same place and time. Yet most video conferencing systems are designe...
Tejinder K. Judge, Carman Neustaedter, Steve Harri...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Audience behavior around large interactive cylindrical screens
Non-planar screens, such as columns, have been a popular means for displaying information for a long time. In contrast to traditional displays their digital counterparts are mainl...
Gilbert Beyer, Florian Alt, Jörg Müller,...