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GISCIENCE
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Destinations, Origins and Route Parts from Human Generated Route Directions
Researchers from the cognitive and spatial sciences are studying text descriptions of movement patterns in order to examine how humans communicate and understand spatial informatio...
Xiao Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Alexander Klippel, Al...
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
'Bad Practice' or 'Bad Methods' -- Are Software Engineering and Ethnographic Discourses Incompatible?
Organisational problems in industry have evoked increased interest in empirical methodologies in the broader software engineering community. In particular, the human role in softw...
Kari Rönkkö, Olle Lindeberg, Yvonne Ditt...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Do knobs have character?: exploring diversity in users' inferences
Physical controls are now ubiquitous in everyday interactions. Empirical studies of physical interactions have traditionally been exploring instrumental aspects such as error rate...
Evangelos Karapanos, Stephan Wensveen, Bart Friede...
CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 5 days ago
Eye Tracking the Visual Search of Click-Down Menus
Click-down (or pull-down) menus have long been a key component of graphical user interfaces, yet we know surprisingly little about how users actually interact with such menus. Nil...
Michael D. Byrne, John R. Anderson, Scott Douglass...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services
— Robots that operate in the real world will make mistakes. Thus, those who design and build systems will need to understand how best to provide ways for robots to mitigate those...
Min Kyung Lee, Sara Kielser, Jodi Forlizzi, Siddha...