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IUI
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A location representation for generating descriptive walking directions
An expressive representation for location is an important component in many applications. However, while many location-aware applications can reason about space at the level of co...
Gary Look, Buddhika Kottahachchi, Robert Laddaga, ...
CHI
1998
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Designing Audio Aura
In this paper, we describe the process behind the design of Audio Aura. The goal of Audio Aura is to provide serendipitous information, via background auditory cues, that is tied ...
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Mich...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Ethnography considered harmful
We review the current status of ethnography in systems design. We focus particularly on new approaches to and understandings of ethnography that have emerged as the computer has m...
Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Peter Tolmie, Graham Bu...
CHINZ
2005
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The territory is the map: designing navigational aids
It has been shown that people encounter difficulties in using representations and devices designed to assist navigating unfamiliar terrain. Literature review and self-reported vis...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Christopher Lueg, Jeff Axup
DESRIST
2009
Springer
109views Education» more  DESRIST 2009»
15 years 2 months ago
The constitutive and the instrumental in social design
Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial is rightly influential as a founding text in design research in the information systems field (IS). Simon’s contributions in the same vo...
Murali Venkatesh