Managing personal aspects of health is challenging for many patients, particularly those facing a serious condition such as cancer. Finding experienced patients, who can share the...
Andrea Civan-Hartzler, David W. McDonald, Chris Po...
Is a polarized society inevitable, where people choose to be exposed to only political news and commentary that reinforces their existing viewpoints? We examine the relationship b...
Children want to find information about their world, but there are barriers to finding what they seek. Young people have varying abilities to formulate complex queries and compreh...
Allison Druin, Elizabeth Foss, Hilary Hutchinson, ...
The blogosphere is changing how people experience war and conflict. We conducted an analysis of 125 blogs written by Iraqi citizens experiencing extreme disruption in their countr...
Information foraging models have predicted the navigation paths of people browsing the web and (more recently) of programmers while debugging, but these models do not explicitly m...
Joseph Lawrance, Margaret M. Burnett, Rachel K. E....
In this paper, we compare the impact of two different privacy policy representations – AudienceView and Expandable Grids – on users modifying privacy policies for a social net...
Heather Richter Lipford, Jason Watson, Michael Whi...
We present a study which investigated how and why users of Mozilla Firefox use multiple tabs and windows during web browsing. The detailed web browsing usage of 21 participants wa...
Current business conditions have given rise to distributed teams that are mostly collocated except for one remote member. These “hub-and-satellite” teams face the challenge of...
Gina Venolia, John C. Tang, Ruy Cervantes, Sara Bl...
Human-computer systems intended for time-critical multitasking need to be designed with an understanding of how humans can coordinate and interleave perceptual, memory, and motor ...
Applications that provide location-based experiences are an increasingly viable design space given the proliferation of GPS-enabled mobile devices. However, these applications are...
Carman Neustaedter, Anthony Tang, Tejinder K. Judg...