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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Improvisation principles and techniques for design
Existing research addresses how designers create tools to support improvisation, yet little research explores how improvisation offers tools to support design work. This paper exp...
Elizabeth Gerber
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Medical sensemaking with entity workspace
Knowledge workers making sense of a topic divide their time among activities including searching for information, reading, and taking notes. We have built a software system that s...
Dorrit Billman, Eric A. Bier
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Navigating persistent audio
This paper gives an overview of RadioActive, a largescale asynchronous audio messaging platform for mobile devices. It supports persistent chat spaces that allow users to engage i...
Aaron Zinman, Judith S. Donath
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Communicating intimacy one bit at a time
In this paper, we present a study of `minimal intimate objects': low bandwidth devices for communicating intimacy for couples in long-distance relationships. We describe a us...
Joseph Kaye, Mariah K. Levitt, Jeffrey Nevins, Jes...
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
A diary study of task switching and interruptions
We report on a diary study of the activities of information workers aimed at characterizing how people interleave multiple tasks amidst interruptions. The week-long study revealed...
Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Susan Wilhite