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ACHI
2009
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Understanding Social Robots
Research on social robots is mainly comprised of research into algorithmic problems in order to expand a robot´s capabilities to improve communication with human beings. Also, a ...
Frank Hegel, Claudia Muhl, Britta Wrede, Martina H...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Current issues in assessing and improving information usability
Stephanie Rosenbaum, Judith Ramey, Janice (Ginny) ...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Radio healer
In this paper we discuss our performance titled Radio Healer. This performance reflects upon the indigenous cultural implications of consumer technologies such as the Internet, mo...
Cristóbal Martinez, Randy Kemp, Lisa M. Tol...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
BioTISCH: the interactive molecular biology lab bench
In a molecular biology lab, scientists often need to execute strictly defined sequences of operations, typically mixing specific amounts of reagents. The exact steps require infor...
Florian Echtler, Maximilian Häussler, Gudrun ...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Buddy bearings: a person-to-person navigation system
This paper proposes a mobile application to facilitate the meeting of people in unmarked spaces. We report on the concept, aspects of the work-in-progress implementation and futur...
George T. Hayes, Dhawal Mujumdar, Thomas Schluchte...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Clutching at straws: using tangible interaction to provide non-visual access to graphs
We present a tangible user interface (TUI) called Tangible Graph Builder, that has been designed to allow visually impaired users to access graph and chart-based data. We describe...
David K. McGookin, Euan Robertson, Stephen A. Brew...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Comparing user performance with single-finger, whole-hand, and hybrid pointing devices
Researchers have explored pointing devices operated by a single finger, but their advantage was not clear compared to conventional mice controlled by the whole hand. To incorporat...
Xiang Cao, Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
The NICE discussion room: integrating paper and digital media to support co-located group meetings
Current technological solutions that enable content creation and sharing during group discussion meetings are often cumbersome to use, and are commonly abandoned for traditional p...
Michael Haller, Jakob Leitner, Thomas Seifried, Ja...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
O job can you return my mojo: improving human engagement and enjoyment in routine activities
Unlike machines, we humans are prone to boredom when we perform routine activities for long periods of time. Workers’ mental engagement in boring tasks diminishes, which eventua...
Dvijesh Shastri, Yuichi Fujiki, Ross Buffington, P...