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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse
This paper presents the perspective that sustainability can and should be a central focus of interaction design--a perspective that is termed Sustainable Interaction Design (SID)....
Eli Blevis
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
FASTDash: a visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams
Software developers spend significant time gaining and maintaining awareness of fellow developers' activities. FASTDash is a new interactive visualization that seeks to impro...
Jacob T. Biehl, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Georg...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Sharing motion information with close family and friends
We present the Motion Presence application, an augmented phone book style application that allows close friends and family to view each other's current motion status ("m...
Frank Bentley, Crysta J. Metcalf
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Hard lessons: effort-inducing interfaces benefit spatial learning
Interface designers normally strive for a design that minimises the user's effort. However, when the design's objective is to train users to interact with interfaces tha...
Andy Cockburn, Per Ola Kristensson, Jason Alexande...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Tangible user interface for chemistry education: comparative evaluation and re-design
Augmented Chemistry (AC) is an application that utilizes a tangible user interface (TUI) for organic chemistry education. The empirical evaluation described in this paper compares...
Morten Fjeld, Jonas Fredriksson, Martin Ejdestig, ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Comedia: mobile group media for active spectatorship
Previous attempts to support spectators at large-scale events have concentrated separately on real-time event information, awareness cues, or media-sharing applications. CoMedia c...
Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Tommi Ilmonen, J...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Towards developing assistive haptic feedback for visually impaired internet users
Haptic technologies are thought to have the potential to help blind individuals overcome the challenges experienced when accessing the Web. This paper proposes a structured partic...
Ravi Kuber, Wai Yu, Graham McAllister
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Provoking sociability
In this study, we explore the potential usefulness of disturbing, uncomfortable systems, demonstrating that provocative technology can have a positive effect on social relationshi...
Brooke E. Foucault, Helena M. Mentis, Phoebe Senge...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Modeling steering within above-the-surface interaction layers
Interaction techniques that utilize the space above the display surface to extend the functionalities of digitized surfaces continue to emerge. In such techniques, movements are c...
Raghavendra S. Kattinakere, Tovi Grossman, Sriram ...