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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Communication chains and multitasking
There is a growing literature on managing multitasking and interruptions in the workplace. In an ethnographic study, we investigated the phenomenon of communication chains, the oc...
Norman Makoto Su, Gloria Mark
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Understanding geocaching practices and motivations
Geocaching is a location-based activity that has been practiced for a number of years. As a sustained and established activity it represents an important opportunity for understan...
Kenton O'Hara
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
FacetZoom: a continuous multi-scale widget for navigating hierarchical metadata
Faceted browsing is a promising way to incrementally refine data sets. Current approaches do not scale well in terms of screen size and have shortcomings in interacting with hiera...
Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch, Markus Weiland
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana
Computer-mediated communication systems can be used to bridge the gap between doctors in underserved regions with local shortages of medical expertise and medical specialists worl...
Rowena Luk, Melissa Ho, Paul M. Aoki