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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Layered elaboration: a new technique for co-design with children
As technology for children becomes more mobile, social, and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new directions. This paper reports o...
Greg Walsh, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Elizab...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Biketastic: sensing and mapping for better biking
Bicycling is an affordable, environmentally friendly alternative transportation mode to motorized travel. A common task performed by bikers is to find good routes in an area, whe...
Sasank Reddy, Katie Shilton, Gleb Denisov, Christi...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Apatite: a new interface for exploring APIs
We present Apatite, a new tool that aids users in learning and understanding a complex API by visualizing the common associations between its various components. Current object-or...
Daniel S. Eisenberg, Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Lumino: tangible blocks for tabletop computers based on glass fiber bundles
Tabletop computers based on diffuse illumination can track fiducial markers placed on the table’s surface. In this paper, we demonstrate how to do the same with objects arranged...
Patrick Baudisch, Torsten Becker, Frederik Rudeck
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Lessons learned from blog muse: audience-based inspiration for bloggers
Blogging in the enterprise is increasingly popular and recent research has shown that there are numerous benefits for both individuals and the organization, e.g. developing reputa...
Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, David R. Millen
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Let's go from the whiteboard: supporting transitions in work through whiteboard capture and reuse
The use of whiteboards is pervasive across a wide range of work domains. But some of the qualities that make them successful—an intuitive interface, physical working space, and ...
Stacy M. Branham, Gene Golovchinsky, Scott Carter,...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
As our technologies travel to new cultural contexts and our designs and methods engage new constituencies, both our design and analytical practices face significant challenges. We...
Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita P...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Faster progress bars: manipulating perceived duration with visual augmentations
Human perception of time is fluid, and can be manipulated in purposeful and productive ways. In this note, we propose and evaluate variations on two visual designs for progress ba...
Chris Harrison, Zhiquan Yeo, Scott E. Hudson
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Cord input: an intuitive, high-accuracy, multi-degree-of-freedom input method for mobile devices
A cord, although simple in form, has many interesting physical affordances that make it powerful as an input device. Not only can a length of cord be grasped in different location...
Julia Schwarz, Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson, Je...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Cars, calls, and cognition: investigating driving and divided attention
Conversing on cell phones while driving an automobile is a common practice. We examine the interference of the cognitive load of conversational dialog with driving tasks, with the...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Yun-Cheng Ju, Eric Horvitz