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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Skim reading by satisficing: evidence from eye tracking
Readers on the Web often skim through text to cope with the volume of available information. In a previous study [11] readers’ eye movements were tracked as they skimmed through...
Geoffrey B. Duggan, Stephen J. Payne
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: unfollowing on twitter
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Priya Govindan, Mor Naaman
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Placing a value on aesthetics in online casual games
Game designers frequently invest in aesthetic improvements such as music, sound effects, and animations. However, their exact value for attracting and retaining players remains un...
Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Rich Snider, Roy Szeto,...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Dealing with death in design: developing systems for the bereaved
Increasingly, systems are being developed and used in ways that involve end of life issues such as death, dying, and bereavement. Yet design considerations and guidelines for tech...
Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker
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
SandCanvas: a multi-touch art medium inspired by sand animation
Sand animation is a performance art technique in which an artist tells stories by creating animated images with sand. Inspired by this medium, we have developed a new multitouch d...
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Kien Chuan Chua, Shengdong Zha...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
MoBoogie: creative expression through whole body musical interaction
In this paper we describe MoBoogie, an application that allows users to manipulate and arrange music through movement. MoBoogie is designed to foster experiences in creative expre...
Megan K. Halpern, Jakob Tholander, Max Evjen, Stua...
ACMIDC
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Examining values: an analysis of nine years of IDC research
Explicitly examining the values held by a research community provides a tool in which participants can define its culture, conduct informed research, and reflect on their design p...
Svetlana Yarosh, Iulian Radu, Seth Hunter, Eric Ro...
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Tag expression: tagging with feeling
In this paper we introduce tag expression, a novel form of preference elicitation that combines elements from tagging and rating systems. Tag expression enables users to apply aff...
Jesse Vig, Matthew Soukup, Shilad Sen, John Riedl
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Hearsay: a new generation context-driven multi-modal assistive web browser
This demo will present HearSay, a multi-modal non-visual web browser, which aims to bridge the growing Web Accessibility divide between individuals with visual impairments and the...
Yevgen Borodin, Faisal Ahmed, Muhammad Asiful Isla...