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CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 4 hour ago
Visualizing Implicit Queries for Information Management and Retrieval
In this paper, we describe the use of similarity metrics in a novel visual environment for storing and retrieving favorite web pages. The similarity metrics, called Implicit Queri...
Mary Czerwinski, Susan T. Dumais, George G. Robert...
CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 4 hour ago
The Tangled Web we Wove: A Taskonomy of WWW Use
A prerequisite to the effective design of user interfaces is an understanding of the tasks for which that interface will actually be used. Surprisingly little task analysis has ap...
Michael D. Byrne, Bonnie E. John, Neil S. Wehrle, ...
CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 4 hour ago
Eye Tracking the Visual Search of Click-Down Menus
Click-down (or pull-down) menus have long been a key component of graphical user interfaces, yet we know surprisingly little about how users actually interact with such menus. Nil...
Michael D. Byrne, John R. Anderson, Scott Douglass...
CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 4 hour ago
Exploring Bimanual Camera Control and Object Manipulation in 3D Graphics Interfaces
We explore the use of the non-dominant hand to control a virtual camera while the dominant hand performs other tasks in a virtual 3D scene. Two experiments and an informal study a...
Ravin Balakrishnan, Gordon Kurtenbach
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 12 hour ago
Presentation of Positional Information by Heat Phantom Sensation
: In this study, we investigated the "heat phantom sensation" induced by thermal stimulation of two points. Phantom sensations are tactile illusions induced at a point be...
Jun Oohara, Hiroshi Kato, Yuki Hashimoto, Hiroyuki...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 12 hour ago
Haptic/VR Assessment Tool for Fine Motor Control
Abstract. The Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT) is routinely used in clinical environments to evaluate a patient's fine hand control. A physician measures the total time required to i...
Christophe Emery, Evren Samur, Olivier Lambercy, H...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 12 hour ago
The Core Skills Trainer: A Set of Haptic Games for Practicing Key Clinical Skills
Abstract. A new approach to teaching the skills used by health professionals during hands-on (palpation-based) examinations and procedures is reported, where students practice indi...
Sarah Baillie, Neil Forrest, Tierney Kinnison
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 12 hour ago
Basic Properties of Phantom Sensation for Practical Haptic Applications
Phantom sensation (PhS) is a pseudo-tactile sensation that occurs when two or more mechanical or electrical stimuli are presented simultaneously to the skin. PhS has two well-known...
Hiroshi Kato, Yuki Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Kajimoto
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 15 hour ago
From manipulation to communicative gesture
— Assisting humans in their daily lives requires robots to be proficient in manual tasks and effective in communicating states/intentions with human users. This paper advocates ...
Shichao Ou, Roderic A. Grupen