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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Active reading and its discontents: the situations, problems and ideas of readers
The increasing popularity of personal reading devices raises the question of how best to support so-called active reading, which involves acts like annotation, note taking, etc. P...
Craig S. Tashman, W. Keith Edwards
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
Morten Fjeld, Kristina Lauche, Martin Bichsel, Fre...
APCHI
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers
The fundamental challenge for computational media is to contribute to the invention and design of cultures in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningf...
Gerhard Fischer
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The evolution of buildings and implications for the design of ubiquitous domestic environments
This paper considers how we may realize future ubiquitous domestic environments. Building upon previous work on how buildings evolve by Stewart Brand, we suggest the need to broad...
Tom Rodden, Steve Benford