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CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Balance pass: service design for a healthy college lifestyle
This paper describes the design of a service that provides nutritional feedback to female college freshmen. A variety of background research methods-food journals, competitive pro...
Aditya Chand, Monica Gonzalez, Julian Missig, Puri...
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
AVIVA: a health and fitness monitor for young women
In this paper we describe AVIVA, a prototype health and fitness monitor for young women. The device helps and encourages the user to balance the many aspects of attaining good hea...
Rachel Gockley, Michael F. Marotta, Carin Rogoff, ...
CHI
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Evaluating paper prototypes on the street
The evaluation of paper prototypes is normally conducted in controlled settings such as a usability lab. This paper, in contrast, reports on a study where evaluations of a paper p...
David G. Hendry, Sara Mackenzie, Ann Kurth, Freya ...
RECOMB
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Finding approximate tandem repeats in genomic sequences
An efficient algorithm is presented for detecting approximate tandem repeats in genomic sequences. The algorithm is based on a flexible statistical model which allows a wide range...
Ydo Wexler, Zohar Yakhini, Yechezkel Kashi, Dan Ge...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Technological approaches to promoting physical activity
This paper reflects on the HCI community’s current and potential contributions to the problem of promoting physical activity. It does so by first presenting a conceptual overvie...
Julie Maitland, Katie A. Siek