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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 27 days ago
The information flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking
We introduce the information flaneur as a new human-centred view on information seeking that is grounded in interdisciplinary research. We use the metaphor of the urban flaneur ...
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, Carey Willi...
HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Natural person-following behavior for social robots
We are developing robots with socially appropriate spatial skills not only to travel around or near people, but also to accompany people side-by-side. As a step toward this goal, ...
Rachel Gockley, Jodi Forlizzi, Reid G. Simmons
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Communication chains and multitasking
There is a growing literature on managing multitasking and interruptions in the workplace. In an ethnographic study, we investigated the phenomenon of communication chains, the oc...
Norman Makoto Su, Gloria Mark
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI
Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is something that brings people together?individuals interact through and around it. Cu...
Andrea Grimes, Richard Harper
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Vio: a mixed-initiative approach to learning and automating procedural update tasks
Today many workers spend too much of their time translating their co-workers' requests into structures that information systems can understand. This paper presents the novel ...
John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic, Isaac Simmons, Ia...