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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Family story play: reading with young children (and elmo) over a distance
We introduce Family Story Play, a system that supports grandparents to read books together with their grandchildren over the Internet. Family Story Play is designed to improve com...
Hayes Raffle, Rafael Ballagas, Glenda Revelle, Hir...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Skinput: appropriating the body as an input surface
We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as an input surface. In particular, we resolve the locati...
Chris Harrison, Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Individual models of color differentiation to improve interpretability of information visualization
Color is commonly used to represent categories and values in many computer applications, but differentiating these colors can be difficult in many situations (e.g., for users with...
David R. Flatla, Carl Gutwin
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Homeless young people's experiences with information systems: life and work in a community technology center
This paper explores how homeless young people, aged 1325, make use of information systems in daily life. Observed in a community technology center, four different examples of uses...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, David G. Hendry
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Where are you pointing?: the accuracy of deictic pointing in CVEs
Deictic reference – pointing at things during conversation – is ubiquitous in human communication, and should also be an important tool in distributed collaborative virtual en...
Nelson Wong, Carl Gutwin
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Example-centric programming: integrating web search into the development environment
The ready availability of online source code examples has changed the cost structure of programming by example modification. However, current search tools are wholly separate from...
Joel Brandt, Mira Dontcheva, Marcos Weskamp, Scott...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Rethinking RFID: awareness and control for interaction with RFID systems
People now routinely carry radio frequency identification (RFID) tags – in passports, driver’s licenses, credit cards, and other identifying cards – where nearby RFID reader...
Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar,...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Intermediated technology use in developing communities
Nithya Sambasivan, Ed Cutrell, Kentaro Toyama, Bon...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Designing with interactive example galleries
Designers often use examples for inspiration; examples offer contextualized instances of how form and content integrate. Can interactive example galleries bring this practice to e...
Brian Lee, Savil Srivastava, Ranjitha Kumar, Ronen...