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CHI
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Beyond Fitts' Law: Models for Trajectory-Based HCI Tasks
Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating through nested-menus, drawing curves, and moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern computer interfaces. Users’ ...
Johnny Accot, Shumin Zhai
CHI
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Using Music as a Communication Medium
Music is a rich communication medium, and there are some similarities between the job of a music composer and that of an HCI designer (although their objectives may be different)....
James L. Alty, Dimitrios I. Rigas, Paul Vickers
ACMDIS
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
A Case Study in Interactive Narrative Design
The paper describes lessons learned about the design of a form for interactive narrative. The lessons are based on an initial prototype and have ramifications for both a next-step...
Carol Strohecker
ACMDIS
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
How to Make Software Softer - Designing Tailorable Applications
The design of tailorable systems is an important issue for fields of application which are characterized by differentiation and dynamics. We show how tailorability can be combined...
Oliver Stiemerling, Helge Kahler, Volker Wulf
ACMDIS
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
HCI, Natural Science and Design: A Framework for Triangulation Across Disciplines
Human-computer interaction is multidisciplinary, drawing paradigms and techniques from both the natural sciences and the design disciplines. HCI cannot be considered a pure natura...
Wendy E. Mackay, Anne-Laure Fayard
ACMDIS
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Designing the OpenDoc Human Interface
This paper tells the story of the development of the human interface for OpenDoc, a large-scale, complex, crossplatform commercial development project at Apple Computer. OpenDoc w...
Dave Curbow, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
ACMDIS
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Triangles: Design of a Physical/Digital Construction Kit
This paper presents the design of a new form of computer interface that uses physical objects to embody digital information, providing a means for interacting with data. Triangles...
Matthew G. Gorbet, Maggie Orth
ACMDIS
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
A Teleradiology System Design Case
This paper describes the teleradiology application CHILI from the graphical user interface point of view. We present the most important design decisions taken during the construct...
Erik Borälv, Bengt Göransson
ISWC
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Tactual Displays for Wearable Computing
:Thispaperprovidesa generaloverviewoftactualdisplays(i.e.,devicesthat communicateto a userthroughthe senseoftouch) andissuesconcerningthe developmentofsuchdisplaysforwearablecomput...
Hong Z. Tan, Alex Pentland
ISWC
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Metronaut: A Wearable Computer with Sensing and Global Communication Capabilities
Metronaut is a novel wearable computer which captures information, senses position, provides wide range communications, consumes less than one watt of power, and weighs less than ...
Asim Smailagic, Richard Martin