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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Home automation in the wild: challenges and opportunities
Visions of smart homes have long caught the attention of researchers and considerable effort has been put toward enabling home automation. However, these technologies have not bee...
A. J. Bernheim Brush, Bongshin Lee, Ratul Mahajan,...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Comet and target ghost: techniques for selecting moving targets
Numerous applications such as simulations, air traffic control systems, and video surveillance systems are inherently composed of spatial objects that move in a scene. In many ins...
Khalad Hasan, Tovi Grossman, Pourang Irani
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders
Blind and deaf-blind people often rely on public transit for everyday mobility, but using transit can be challenging for them. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 blin...
Shiri Azenkot, Sanjana Prasain, Alan Borning, Emil...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A spreadsheet-based user interface for managing plural relationships in structured data
A key feature of relational database applications is managing plural relationships—one-to-many and many-to-many— between entities. However, since it is often infeasible to ado...
Eirik Bakke, David R. Karger, Rob Miller
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Why is my internet slow?: making network speeds visible
With widespread broadband adoption, more households report experiencing sub-optimal speeds. Not only are slow speeds frustrating, they may indicate consumers are not receiving the...
Marshini Chetty, David Haslem, Andrew Baird, Ugoch...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Temporal distortion for animated transitions
Pierre Dragicevic, Anastasia Bezerianos, Waqas Jav...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Motionbeam: a metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors
We present the MotionBeam metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors. Our work draws from the tradition of pre-cinema handheld projectors that use direct physical...
Karl D. D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Takaaki Shirator...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
From garments to gardens: negotiating material relationships online and 'by hand'
From home improvement to scrapbooking, leisure activities performed “by hand” increasingly involve digital tools. In turn, software and devices to support handwork are prolife...
Elizabeth Goodman, Daniela Rosner