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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
How peer photos influence member participation in online communities
Online communities (OLCs) are gatherings of like -minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. Creating such communities is not a big challenge; sustaining m...
Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terv...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Toward wearable social networking with iBand
The iBand is a wearable bracelet-like device that exchanges information about its users and their relationships. This exchange happens during the common gesture of the handshake, ...
Marije Kanis, Niall Winters, Stefan Agamanolis, An...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Evaluating navigational surrogate formats with divergent browsing tasks
Navigational surrogates are representations that stand for information resources within search engine result sets, e-commerce sites, and digital libraries. They also form the basi...
Andruid Kerne, Steven M. Smith, Hyun Choi, Ross Gr...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Sketch-based rapid prototyping platform for hardware-software integrated interactive products
This paper presents a platform in which interaction designers can effectively and rapidly develop tangible interactive prototypes by sketching. The study aims to build a platform ...
Tek-Jin Nam
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
It's a jungle out there: practical considerations for evaluation in the city
An essential aspect of mobile and ubiquitous computing research is evaluation within the expected usage context, including environment. When that environment is an urban center, i...
Melanie Kellar, Derek F. Reilly, Kirstie Hawkey, M...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Symbolic objects in a networked gestural sound interface
SignalPlay is a sensor-based interactive sound environment in which familiar objects encourage exploration and discovery of sound interfaces through the process of play. Embedded ...
Eric Kabisch, Amanda Williams, Paul Dourish
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Communicating intimacy one bit at a time
In this paper, we present a study of `minimal intimate objects': low bandwidth devices for communicating intimacy for couples in long-distance relationships. We describe a us...
Joseph Kaye, Mariah K. Levitt, Jeffrey Nevins, Jes...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
The advantages of a cross-session web workspace
Conducting research using the web is often an iterative process of collecting, comparing and contrasting information. Not surprisingly, web-based research tasks habitually span mu...
Kari-Jouko Räihä, Natalie Jhaveri
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
eyeView: focus+context views for large group video conferences
In this paper, we describe the design of eyeView, a video conferencing system that uses participant looking behavior to determine the size of online video conferencing windows. Th...
Tracy Jenkin, Jesse McGeachie, David Fono, Roel Ve...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Breakaway: an ambient display designed to change human behavior
We present Breakaway, an ambient display that encourages people, whose job requires them to sit for long periods of time, to take breaks more frequently. Breakaway uses the inform...
Nassim Jafarinaimi, Jodi Forlizzi, Amy Hurst, John...