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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Asl-stem forum: enabling sign language to grow through online collaboration
American Sign Language (ASL) currently lacks agreed-upon signs for complex terms in scientific fields, causing deaf students to miss or misunderstand course material. Furthermor...
Anna Cavender, Daniel S. Otero, Jeffrey P. Bigham,...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Mobile-izing health workers in rural India
Researchers have long been interested in the potential of ICTs to enable positive change in developing regions communities. In these environments, ICT interventions often fail bec...
Divya Ramachandran, John Canny, Prabhu Dutta Das, ...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring the workplace communication ecology
The modern workplace is inherently collaborative, and this collaboration relies on effective communication among coworkers. Many communication tools – email, blogs, wikis, Twitt...
Thea Turner, Pernilla Qvarfordt, Jacob T. Biehl, G...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Designing patient-centric information displays for hospitals
Lauren Wilcox, Dan Morris, Desney S. Tan, Justin G...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How to support designers in getting hold of the immaterial material of software
When designing novel GUI controls, interaction designers are challenged by the “immaterial” materiality of the digital domain; they lack tools that effectively support a refle...
Fatih Kursat Ozenc, Miso Kim, John Zimmerman, Step...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Usable gestures for mobile interfaces: evaluating social acceptability
Gesture-based mobile interfaces require users to change the way they use technology in public settings. Since mobile phones are part of our public appearance, designers must integ...
Julie Rico, Stephen A. Brewster
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A longitudinal study of how highlighting web content change affects people's web interactions
The Web is constantly changing, but most tools used to access Web content deal only with what can be captured at a single instance in time. As a result, Web users may not have a g...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Momentum: getting and staying on topic during a brainstorm
Despite the prevalent use of group brainstorming for problem solving and decision-making within organizations, brainstorming sessions often lack focus and fail to produce quality ...
Patti Bao, Elizabeth Gerber, Darren Gergle, David ...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Family story play: reading with young children (and elmo) over a distance
We introduce Family Story Play, a system that supports grandparents to read books together with their grandchildren over the Internet. Family Story Play is designed to improve com...
Hayes Raffle, Rafael Ballagas, Glenda Revelle, Hir...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Skinput: appropriating the body as an input surface
We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as an input surface. In particular, we resolve the locati...
Chris Harrison, Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris