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HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Haptic reassurance in the pitch black for an immersive theatre experience
An immersive theatre experience was designed to raise awareness and question perceptions of ‘blindness’, through enabling both sighted and blind members to experience a simila...
Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi,...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
How to carry over historic books into social networks
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Heimo Müller, Hermann A. Maurer
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Building directories for social tagging systems
Today, a number of algorithms exist for constructing tag hierarchies from social tagging data. While these algorithms were designed with ontological goals in mind, we know very li...
Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier
SAC
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Understanding and improving Wikipedia article discussion spaces
Wikipedia’s article discussion spaces (“Talk pages”) form a large and growing proportion of the encyclopedia, used for collaboration and article improvement. So far there is...
Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin
IUI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
TellMe: learning procedures from tutorial instruction
This paper describes an approach to allow end users to define new procedures through tutorial instruction. Our approach allows users to specify procedures in natural language in t...
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Christian Fritz
IUI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Automatically generating stories from sensor data
Recent research in Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) has begun to make use of Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques. This creates an opportunity for constructin...
Joseph Reddington, Nava Tintarev
IUI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Protractor3D: a closed-form solution to rotation-invariant 3D gestures
Protractor 3D is a gesture recognizer that extends the 2D touch screen gesture recognizer Protractor [8] to 3D gestures. It inherits many of Protractor’s desirable properties, s...
Sven G. Kratz, Michael Rohs
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Browse and discover: social file sharing in the enterprise
There is a growth in the popularity of social file sharing systems. This paper describes the design of Cattail, a social file sharing system for the enterprise. Through a ‘Recen...
N. Sadat Shami, Michael J. Muller, David R. Millen
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
Chameleon: A Color-Adaptive Web Browser for Mobile OLED Displays
Displays based on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology are appearing on many mobile devices. Unlike liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED displays consume dramatically dif...
Mian Dong, Lin Zhong