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CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk
User studies are important for many aspects of the design process and involve techniques ranging from informal surveys to rigorous laboratory studies. However, the costs involved ...
Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The effects of empathetic virtual characters on presence in narrative-centered learning environments
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role that narrative can play in learning. With the emergence of narrative-centered learning environments that engage students by d...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Les...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Impromptu: a new interaction framework for supporting collaboration in multiple display environments and its field evaluation fo
We present a new interaction framework for collaborating in multiple display environments (MDEs) and report results from a field study investigating its use in an authentic work s...
Jacob T. Biehl, William T. Baker, Brian P. Bailey,...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
From awareness to repartee: sharing location within social groups
This paper investigates emergent practices around `microblogging', changing and sharing status within a social group. We present results from a trial of `Connecto', a ph...
Louise Barkhuus, Barry Brown, Marek Bell, Scott Sh...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Collaborating to remember: a distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments
Individuals with cognitive deficits and their families are prime examples of collaborative "systems" that seek to perform everyday tasks together. Yet there has been lit...
Mike Wu, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Brian Richards, Rona...