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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Mischief: supporting remote teaching in developing regions
Mischief is a system to support traditional classroom practices between a remote instructor and a group of collocated students. Meant for developing regions, each student in the c...
Neema Moraveji, Taemie Kim, James Ge, Udai Singh P...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Stane: synthesized surfaces for tactile input
Stane is a hand-held interaction device controlled by tactile input: scratching or rubbing textured surfaces and tapping. The system has a range of sensors, including contact micr...
Roderick Murray-Smith, John Williamson, Stephen Hu...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Wedge: clutter-free visualization of off-screen locations
To overcome display limitations of small-screen devices, researchers have proposed techniques that point users to objects located off-screen. Arrow-based techniques such as City L...
Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin, Pou...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Friends and foes: ideological social networking
Traditional online social network sites use a single monolithic "friends" relationship to link users. However, users may have more in common with strangers, suggesting t...
Gábor Szabó, Michael J. Brzozowski, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
In-car gps navigation: engagement with and disengagement from the environment
Although in-car GPS navigation technology is proliferating, it is not well understood how its use alters the ways people interpret their environment and navigate through it. We ar...
Gilly Leshed, Theresa Velden, Oya Rieger, Blazej J...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Supporting the analytical reasoning process in information visualization
This paper presents a new information visualization framework that supports the analytical reasoning process. It consists of three views - a data view, a knowledge view and a navi...
Yedendra Babu Shrinivasan, Jarke J. van Wijk
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: improved preference, similar performance
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The sound of touch: physical manipulation of digital sound
The Sound of Touch is a new tool for real-time capture and sensitive physical stimulation of sound samples using digital convolution. Our hand-held wand can be used to (1) record ...
David Merrill, Hayes Raffle, Roberto Aimi
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating visual cues for window switching on large screens
An increasing number of users are adopting large, multimonitor displays. The resulting setups cover such a broad viewing angle that users can no longer simultaneously perceive all...
Raphael Hoffmann, Patrick Baudisch, Daniel S. Weld
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Quickdraw: the impact of mobility and on-body placement on device access time
We investigate the effect of placement and user mobility on the time required to access an on-body interface. In our study, a wrist-mounted system was significantly faster to acce...
Daniel Ashbrook, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad S...