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AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Laser pointer interaction techniques using peripheral areas of screens
This paper presents new interaction techniques that use a laser pointer to directly manipulate applications displayed on a large screen. The techniques are based on goal crossing,...
Buntarou Shizuki, Takaomi Hisamatsu, Shin Takahash...
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Mobility agents: guiding and tracking public transportation users
Increasingly, public transportation systems are equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) connected to control centers through wireless networks. Controllers use this infrast...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Tumble! Splat! helping users access and manipulate occluded content in 2D drawings
Accessing and manipulating occluded content in layered 2D drawings can be difficult. This paper characterizes a design space of techniques that facilitate access to occluded conte...
Gonzalo Ramos, George G. Robertson, Mary Czerwinsk...
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design
Researchers have explored the design of ambient information systems across a wide range of physical and screen-based media. This work has yielded rich examples of design approache...
Zachary Pousman, John T. Stasko
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Improving access of elderly people to real environments: a semantic based approach
Access to real environments is often conditioned by a number of issues, including the skills of the user (i.e. affected by aging, physical and psychological deficiencies, etc.) an...
Fabio Pittarello, Alessandro De Faveri
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Contrasting portraits of email practices: visual approaches to reflection and analysis
Over time, many people accumulate extensive email repositories that contain detailed information about their personal communication patterns and relationships. We present three vi...
Adam Perer, Marc A. Smith
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Task-at-hand interface for change detection in stock market data
Companies trading stocks need to store information on stock prices over specific time intervals, which results in very large databases. Large quantities of numerical data (thousan...
Carmen Sanz Merino, Mike Sips, Daniel A. Keim, Chr...
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A wearable interface for visualizing coauthor networks toward building a sustainable research community
In this paper, we introduce SCACS, a Social Context-Aware Communication System that facilitates face-to-face communications between old-timers and newcomers in a research communit...
Susumu Kuriyama, Masao Ohira, Hiroshi Igaki, Ken-i...
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Line graph explorer: scalable display of line graphs using Focus+Context
Scientific measurements are often depicted as line graphs. Stateof-the-art high throughput systems in life sciences, telemetry and electronics measurement rapidly generate hundred...
Robert Kincaid, Heidi Lam
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Oral messages improve visual search
Input multimodality combining speech and hand gestures has motivated numerous usability studies. Contrastingly, issues relating to the design and ergonomic evaluation of multimoda...
Suzanne Kieffer, Noelle Carbonell