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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Inventive leisure practices: understanding hacking communities as sites of sharing and innovation
Hacking, tinkering, DIY, and crafts are increasingly popular forms of leisure that have also become growing sites of study in HCI. In this work we take a wide view of the similari...
Tricia Wang, Joseph Kaye
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Web workers unite! addressing challenges of online laborers
The ongoing rise of human computation as a means of solving computational problems has created an environment where human workers are often regarded as nameless, faceless computat...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Alexander J. Quinn
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Transparency in mobile navigation
We investigated the usefulness transparency can play in increasing the display space of mobile devices in navigation scenarios. Two different systems that used transparency to dis...
David K. McGookin, Inti Herteleer, Stephen A. Brew...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Places in spaces: common ground in virtual worlds
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of th...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
From the lab to the world: lessons from extending a pointing technique for real-world use
We present the Pointing Magnifier as a case study for understanding the issues and challenges of deploying lab-validated pointing facilitation techniques into the real world. The ...
Alex Jansen, Leah Findlater, Jacob O. Wobbrock
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application
There have been many location sharing systems developed over the past two decades, and only recently have they started to be adopted by consumers. In this paper, we present the re...
Janne Lindqvist, Justin Cranshaw, Jason Wiese, Jas...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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...