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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Rehabilitation centred design
Stroke is a significant cause of disability, and is predicted to become a greater burden as population demographics shift. Research suggests that the completion of rehabilitation ...
Madeline Balaam, Stefan Rennick Egglestone, Ann-Ma...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Tagliatelle: social tagging to encourage healthier eating
This paper describes the design and initial evaluation of Tag-liatelle, a collaborative tagging application for encouraging healthier eating. Users photograph their own meals and ...
Conor Linehan, Mark Doughty, Shaun Lawson, Ben Kir...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Pacer: fine-grained interactive paper via camera-touch hybrid gestures on a cell phone
PACER is a gesture-based interactive paper system that supports fine-grained paper document content manipulation through the touch screen of a cameraphone. Using the phone’s cam...
Chunyuan Liao, Qiong Liu, Bee Liew, Lynn Wilcox
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Speech dasher: fast writing using speech and gaze
Speech Dasher allows writing using a combination of speech and a zooming interface. Users first speak what they want to write and then they navigate through the space of recognit...
Keith Vertanen, David J. C. MacKay
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
InPhase: evaluation of a communication system focused on "happy coincidences" of daily behaviors
To supplement existing forms of communication such as telephone and e-mail, this research proposes a new method of communicating “awareness” between people who are separated b...
Hitomi Tsujita, Koji Tsukada, Itiro Siio
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Improving social game engagement on facebook through enhanced socio-contextual information
In this paper we describe the results of a controlled study of a social game, Magpies, which was built on the Facebook Online Social Network (OSN) and enhanced with contextual soc...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Francesco...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Quasi-qwerty soft keyboard optimization
It has been well understood that optimized soft keyboard layouts improve motor movement efficiency over the standard Qwerty layouts, but have the drawback of long initial visual s...
Xiaojun Bi, Barton A. Smith, Shumin Zhai
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
SHRIMP: solving collision and out of vocabulary problems in mobile predictive input with motion gesture
Dictionary-based disambiguation (DBD) is a very popular solution for text entry on mobile phone keypads but suffers
Jingtao Wang, Shumin Zhai, John F. Canny