This paper presents a new study of the role, importance and meaning of sound in the home. Drawing on interview data and sound recordings gathered from seven households, this study...
Gerard Oleksik, David Frohlich, Lorna M. Brown, Ab...
The development of network-attached devices has ushered in an era of autonomous, multi-function equipment demanding minimal human interaction: the only requirements are data and e...
Michael J. McMahon Jr., Sergiu M. Dascalu, Frederi...
Voicemail is a pervasive, but under-researched tool for workplace communication. Despite potential advantages of voicemail over email, current phone-based voicemail UIs are highly...
Steve Whittaker, Richard Davis, Julia Hirschberg, ...
The annotation of words and phrases by ontology concepts is extremely helpful for semantic interpretation. However many ontologies, e.g. WordNet, are too fine-grained and even hu...
The design of usable haptic icons (brief informational signals delivered through the sense of touch) requires a tool for measuring perceptual distances between icons that will be ...