Informal analysis of many usability tests suggests that there is regularly one participant that is substantially slower than all the others. Moreover, such outliers are more extre...
Facet Folders are a visualization and interaction concept for filtering collections of personal data. Although visually derived from the ubiquitous folder hierarchies of file mana...
Little is known about the impact of politeness in online communities. This project combines deductive and inductive approaches to automatically model linguistic politeness in onli...
We propose a new tactile interface to present various types of tactile sensation, especially a feeling of "softness". A user holds our interface, containing two speakers...
It is of the utmost importance, we argue, to specifically tailor disaster response systems with users' collaboration in mind. Such an approach, building on top of, and extend...
In this paper, I build on perspectives in HumanComputer Interaction (HCI) and design literature to develop a theoretical lens to conduct personal inventories of human-product rela...
This research explores how ideas occur in creative work and the strategies and tools used to represent and develop them. We describe the analysis of an open questionnaire survey o...
In this work-in-progress we explore audience behavior at large musical events and present our prototype, a `cheering meter' developed to aid voting at rap competitions. We re...
In an ideal world, we would always have the right information, in the right form, with the right context, right when we needed it. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world....
TwelvePixels is an interface for drawing pixel-based imagery using only the standard keys on the mobile phone handset. Using an essentially simple drawing method, an extensive ran...