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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 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...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sound intensity gradients in an ambient intelligence audio display
This paper describes the prototype of a real-time responsive audio display for an ambient intelligent game named socio-ec(h)o. The audio display relies on a gradient response to r...
Milena Droumeva, Ron Wakkary
STOC
2007
ACM
117views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
A combinatorial, primal-dual approach to semidefinite programs
Semidefinite programs (SDP) have been used in many recent approximation algorithms. We develop a general primal-dual approach to solve SDPs using a generalization of the well-know...
Sanjeev Arora, Satyen Kale
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Assisted querying using instant-response interfaces
We demonstrate a novel query interface that enables users to construct a rich search query without any prior knowledge of the underlying schema or data. The interface, which is in...
Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects' Constructors
The usability of APIs is increasingly important to programmer productivity. Based on experience with usability studies of specific APIs, techniques were explored for studying the ...
Jeffrey Stylos, Steven Clarke