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SIGDOC
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Why don't people read the manual?
Few users of computer applications seek help from the documentation. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of why this is so and examines how, in real work, users s...
David G. Novick, Karen Ward
AUIC
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Newly-discovered Group Awareness Mechanisms for Supporting Real-time Collaborative Authoring
Group awareness has become important in improving the usability of real-time, distributed, collaborative writing systems. However, the current set of implemented awareness mechani...
Gitesh K. Raikundalia, Hao Lan Zhang
ACSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Poly2 Paradigm: A Secure Network Service Architecture
General-purpose operating systems provide a rich computing environment both to the user and the attacker. The declining cost of hardware and the growing security concerns of softw...
Eric Bryant, James P. Early, Rajeev Gopalakrishna,...
UIST
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Stylus input and editing without prior selection of mode
This paper offers a solution to the mode problem in computer sketch/notetaking programs. Conventionally, the user must specify the intended "draw" or "command"...
Eric Saund, Edward Lank
GW
1999
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
The Expressive Power of Gestures: Capturing Scent in a Spatial Shape
Our engagement with consumer products diminishes gradually over the last decades, which causes considerable usability problems. To dissolve these problems, the designer's emph...
Caroline Hummels, Kees Overbeeke