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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 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...
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GROUP
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
How people use orientation on tables: comprehension, coordination and communication
In order to support co-located collaboration, many researchers are now investigating how to effectively augment tabletops with electronic displays. As far back as 1988, orientatio...
Russell Kruger, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Stacey ...
BCSHCI
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Social support in empathic online communities for older people
The goal of my PhD is to investigate how older people exchange social support in empathic online communities. This will be achieved through an in-depth investigation of online com...
Ulrike Pfeil
ASSETS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Instant tactile-audio map: enabling access to digital maps for people with visual impairment
In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, complete with a prototype system, for supporting instant access to maps for local navigation by people with visual impairment. The...
Zheshen Wang, Baoxin Li, Terri Hedgpeth, Teresa Ha...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Clothing cosegmentation for recognizing people
Reseachers have verified that clothing provides information about the identity of the individual. To extract features from the clothing, the clothing region first must be localize...
Andrew C. Gallagher, Tsuhan Chen