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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Biases in human estimation of interruptibility: effects and implications for practice
People have developed a variety of conventions for negotiating face-to-face interruptions. The physical distribution of teams, however, together with the use of computer-mediated ...
Daniel Avrahami, James Fogarty, Scott E. Hudson
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Utilizing mobile phones as ambient information displays
Mobile phones have become a ubiquitous technology and for many people a daily companion, primarily used for communication and information access. The fact that the phone is accomp...
Albrecht Schmidt, Jonna Häkkilä, Richard...
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PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Avoiding privacy violations caused by context-sensitive services
The increasing availability of information about people's context makes it possible to deploy context-sensitive services, where access to resources provided or managed by a s...
Urs Hengartner, Peter Steenkiste
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Matchin: eliciting user preferences with an online game
Eliciting user preferences for large datasets and creating rankings based on these preferences has many practical applications in community-based sites. This paper gives a new met...
Severin Hacker, Luis von Ahn
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
D-Scan: Enabling Fast and Smooth Handoffs in AP-Dense 802.11 Wireless Networks
—802.11 wireless networks have gained ever greater popularity nowadays. Apart from static wireless connections, people begin to expect more user-friendly features from this kind ...
Jin Teng, Changqing Xu, Weijia Jia, Dong Xuan