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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Life scheduling to support multiple social roles
We present the results of our study of 15 working parents, and how they manage their life scheduling needs, that is, how they manage their personal and professional schedules acro...
Andrea Grimes, A. J. Bernheim Brush
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Design, adoption, and assessment of a socio-technical environment supporting independence for persons with cognitive disabilitie
A significant fraction of persons with cognitive disabilities are potentially able to live more independently with the use of powerful tools embedded in their social environment. ...
Stefan Carmien, Gerhard Fischer
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups
The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One o...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Gonzalo Ramos, M...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Sigma lenses: focus-context transitions combining space, time and translucence
Focus + context techniques such as fisheye lenses are used to navigate and manipulate objects in multi-scale worlds. They provide in-place magnification of a region without requir...
Emmanuel Pietriga, Caroline Appert
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Predicting postcompletion errors using eye movements
A postcompletion error is a distinct type of procedural error where one fails to complete the final step of a task. While redesigning interfaces and providing explicit cues have b...
Raj M. Ratwani, J. Malcolm McCurry, J. Gregory Tra...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Lean and zoom: proximity-aware user interface and content magnification
The size and resolution of computer displays has increased dramatically, allowing more information than ever to be rendered on-screen. However, items can now be so small or screen...
Chris Harrison, Anind K. Dey
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Target acquisition with camera phones when used as magic lenses
When camera phones are used as magic lenses in handheld augmented reality applications involving wall maps or posters, pointing can be divided into two phases: (1) an initial coar...
Michael Rohs, Antti Oulasvirta
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Requirements engineering for home care technology
The focus of this work is the requirements engineering process in the home care domain. The overall aim is to design and document a flexible methodology to facilitate the elicitat...
Marilyn Rose McGee-Lennon
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating tactile feedback and direct vs. indirect stylus input in pointing and crossing selection tasks
We present a pair of experiments that explore the effects of tactile-feedback and direct vs. indirect pen input on pointing and crossing selection tasks. While previous work has d...
Clifton Forlines, Ravin Balakrishnan
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Activity-based prototyping of ubicomp applications for long-lived, everyday human activities
We designed an activity-based prototyping process realized in the ActivityDesigner system that combines the theoretical framework of Activity-Centered Design with traditional iter...
Yang Li, James A. Landay