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SAC
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
A complex biological database querying method
Many biological information systems rely on relational database management systems (RDBMS) to manage high-throughput biological data. While keeping these data well archived, organ...
Jake Yue Chen, John V. Carlis, Ning Gao
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk
User studies are important for many aspects of the design process and involve techniques ranging from informal surveys to rigorous laboratory studies. However, the costs involved ...
Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Appropriation of a MMS-based comic creator: from system functionalities to resources for action
Technologies can be used ? or appropriated ? in different ways by different users, but how do the use patterns evolve, and how can design facilitate such evolution? This paper app...
Antti Salovaara
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The people-prototype problem: understanding the interaction between prototype format and user group
When gathering feedback about an envisioned system, prototypes communicate design ideas to user groups. However, it is unclear how user responses are affected by prototype format....
Katherine M. Sellen, Micheal Massimi, Danielle M. ...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
FASTDash: a visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams
Software developers spend significant time gaining and maintaining awareness of fellow developers' activities. FASTDash is a new interactive visualization that seeks to impro...
Jacob T. Biehl, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Georg...