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CA
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Virtual People: Capturing Human Models to Populate Virtual Worlds
In this paper a new technique is introduced for automatically building recognisable moving 3D models of individual people. Realistic modelling of people is essential for advanced ...
Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, R...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones: values, form and function
By their pervasiveness and by being worn on our bodies, mobile phones seem to have become intrinsic to safety. To examine this proposition, 43 participants, from four stakeholder ...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Amy Iverson, David G. Hendr...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Understanding and characterizing insights: how do people gain insights using information visualization?
Even though "providing insight" has been considered one of the main purposes of information visualization (InfoVis), we feel that insight is still a not-well-understood ...
Ji Soo Yi, Youn ah Kang, John T. Stasko, Julie A. ...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Software or wetware?: discovering when and why people use digital prosthetic memory
Our lives are full of memorable and important moments, as well as important items of information. The last few years have seen the proliferation of digital devices intended to sup...
Steve Whittaker, Vaiva Kalnikaité
WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Discovering the staring people from social networks
In this paper, we study a novel problem of staring people discovery from social networks, which is concerned with finding people who are not only authoritative but also sociable i...
Dewei Chen, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, Lizhu Zhou