Providing good education is one of the major challenges for humanity. In many developing regions in the world improving educational standards is seen as a central building block f...
A number of studies have identified a robust relationship between the use of social network sites, particularly Facebook, and positive outcomes such as social capital. Social netw...
Recently, Wobbrock et al. (2008) derived a predictive model of pointing accuracy to complement Fitts’ law’s predictive model of pointing speed. However, their model was based ...
A user task often spans multiple heterogeneous devices, e.g., working on a PC in the office and continuing the work on a laptop or a mobile phone while commuting on a shuttle. How...
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of construc...
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N...
According to cognitive science literature, human memory is predicated on contextual cues (e.g., room, music) in the environment. During recall tasks, we associate information/acti...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Andrew Warr,...
The Web provides a corpus of design examples unparalleled in human history. However, leveraging existing designs to produce new pages is often difficult. This paper introduces th...
Ranjitha Kumar, Jerry O. Talton, Salman Ahmad, Sco...
Composition, listening, and performance are essential activities in classroom music education, yet conventional music classes impose unnecessary limitations on students’ ability...
Yinsheng Zhou, Graham Percival, Xinxi Wang, Ye Wan...
We present a finger-tracking system for touch-based interaction which can track 3D finger angle in addition to position, using low-resolution conventional capacitive sensors, th...
Simon Rogers, John Williamson, Craig Stewart, Rode...
Much of the mobile work by HCI researchers explores a future world populated by high-end devices and relatively affluent users. This paper turns to consider the hundreds of milli...
Simon Robinson, Nitendra Rajput, Matt Jones, Anupa...