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...
Conversing on cell phones while driving is a risky, yet commonplace activity. State legislatures in the U.S. have enacted rules that limit hand-held phone conversations while driv...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ella ...
Supporting public participation is often a key goal in the design of digital government systems. However, years of work may be required before a complex system, such as the UrbanS...
Batya Friedman, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, Brian T...
Abstract. This paper describes our ongoing research work on deviceless interaction using hand gesture recognition with a calibrated stereo system. Video-based interaction is one of...
Analogy is heavily used in instructional texts. We introduce the concept of analogical dialogue acts (ADAs), which represent the roles utterances play in instructional analogies. ...