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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The buzz: supporting user tailorability in awareness applications
Information awareness applications offer the exciting potential to help people to better manage the data they encounter on a routine basis, but customizing these applications is a...
James R. Eagan, John T. Stasko
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
What to do when search fails: finding information by association
Sometimes people cannot remember the names or locations of things on their computer, but they can remember what other things are associated with them. We created Feldspar, the fir...
Duen Horng Chau, Brad A. Myers, Andrew Faulring
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A co-located interface for narration to support reconciliation in a conflict: initial results from Jewish and Palestinian youth
So called intractable conflicts may benefit from more modest and socially oriented approaches than those based on classical conflict resolution techniques. This paper is inspired ...
Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro, Chaya Koren, Ce...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-flick: an evaluation of flick-based scrolling techniques for pen interfaces
Multi-flick, which consists of repeated flick actions, has received media attention as an intuitive and natural document-scrolling technique for stylus based systems. In this pape...
Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Pourang Irani, Andrés L...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia
Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitari...
Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, Jacqueline Pike
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Performing thrill: designing telemetry systems and spectator interfaces for amusement rides
Fairground: Thrill Laboratory was a series of live events that augmented the experience of amusement rides. A wearable telemetry system captured video, audio, heart-rate and accel...
Brendan Walker, Holger Schnädelbach, Michael ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Sonic interventions: understanding and extending the domestic soundscape
This paper presents a new study of the role, importance and meaning of sound in the home. Drawing on interview data and sound recordings gathered from seven households, this study...
Gerard Oleksik, David Frohlich, Lorna M. Brown, Ab...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Investigating the effectiveness of tactile feedback for mobile touchscreens
This paper presents a study of finger-based text entry for mobile devices with touchscreens. Many devices are now coming to market that have no physical keyboards (the Apple iPhon...
Eve E. Hoggan, Stephen A. Brewster, Jody Johnston
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Interlaced QWERTY: accommodating ease of visual search and input flexibility in shape writing
Shape writing is an input technology for touch-screen mobile phones and pen-tablets. To shape write text, the user spells out word patterns by sliding a finger or stylus over a gr...
Shumin Zhai, Per Ola Kristensson