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Supporting volunteer activities with mobile social software
Many community organizations rely extensively on volunteer work. However, people who wish to help often have difficulties finding the time to volunteer. We are developing mobile s...
Shaun K. Kane, Predrag V. Klasnja
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2009
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WattBot: a residential electricity monitoring and feedback system
Electricity production emits carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, adversely influences global climate change, depletes limited natural resources, and negatively imp...
Dane Petersen, Jay Steele, Joe Wilkerson
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2009
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HCI for the real world
HCI as a field comfortably and unquestionably links itself with the corporate world. What does this mean in terms of an ethics of problem choice, meaning the considerations that i...
Nicholas Knouf
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2009
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Ptz control with head tracking for video chat
This paper describes a user interface for video chat that is capable of panning, tilting, and zooming (PTZ) operation using head tracking. The approach is to map a captured 3D pos...
Kota Yamaguchi, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa
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2009
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15 years 7 months ago
Movable cameras enhance social telepresence in media spaces
Media space is a promising but still immature technology to connect distributed sites. We developed a simple additional function that moved a remote camera forward when a local us...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Yuki Murakami, Kei Kato