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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
MonoTrans2: a new human computation system to support monolingual translation
In this paper, we present MonoTrans2, a new user interface to support monolingual translation; that is, translation by people who speak only the source or target language, but not...
Chang Hu, Benjamin B. Bederson, Philip Resnik, Yak...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces to existing code structures, such as widgets, frameworks, or toolkits. Therefore, they very much do have an impact on ...
Jens Gerken, Hans-Christian Jetter, Michael Zö...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Acquiring and pointing: an empirical study of pen-tilt-based interaction
Research literature has shown that pen tilt is a promising input modality in pen-based interaction. However, the human capability to control pen tilt has not been fully evaluated....
Yizhong Xin, Xiaojun Bi, Xiangshi Ren
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
The information flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking
We introduce the information flaneur as a new human-centred view on information seeking that is grounded in interdisciplinary research. We use the metaphor of the urban flaneur ...
Marian Dörk, Sheelagh Carpendale, Carey Willi...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Of passwords and people: measuring the effect of password-composition policies
Text-based passwords are the most common mechanism for authenticating humans to computer systems. To prevent users from picking passwords that are too easy for an adversary to gue...
Saranga Komanduri, Richard Shay, Patrick Gage Kell...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Characterizing the usability of interactive applications through query log analysis
People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...
Adam Fourney, Richard Mann, Michael Terry
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Dealing with death in design: developing systems for the bereaved
Increasingly, systems are being developed and used in ways that involve end of life issues such as death, dying, and bereavement. Yet design considerations and guidelines for tech...
Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
The effects of task dimensionality, endpoint deviation, throughput calculation, and experiment design on pointing measures and m
Fitts’ law (1954) characterizes pointing speed-accuracy performance as throughput, whose invariance to target distances (A) and sizes (W) is known. However, it is unknown whethe...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Kristen Shinohara, Alex Jansen
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Computers can't give credit: how automatic attribution falls short in an online remixing community
In this paper, we explore the role that attribution plays in shaping user reactions to content reuse, or remixing, in a large user-generated content community. We present two stud...
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Benjamin Ma...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
HeatWave: thermal imaging for surface user interaction
We present HeatWave, a system that uses digital thermal imaging cameras to detect, track, and support user interaction on arbitrary surfaces. Thermal sensing has had limited exami...
Eric Larson, Gabe Cohn, Sidhant Gupta, Xiaofeng Re...