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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Cell phone software aiding name recall
Senior citizens often find it difficult to remember names. This paper describes a novel cell phone application that uses information about one's social network and the places...
Kent Fenwick, Michael Massimi, Ronald Baecker, San...
VIP
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Layered Earth Inversion Visual Toolkit: A Scientific Visualisation Case Study
Visualisation Systems are in general designed to maximise the cognitive ability of system users particularly when exposed to large sets of otherwise difficult to comprehend data, ...
Andrew Donohoo, Debbie Richards
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Using persistent homology to recover spatial information from encounter traces
In order to better understand human and animal mobility and its potential effects on Mobile Ad-Hoc networks and Delay-Tolerant Networks, many researchers have conducted experiment...
Brenton D. Walker