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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Enhancing web page readability for non-native readers
Readers face many obstacles on today’s Web, including distracting content competing for the user’s attention and other factors interfering with comfortable reading. On today...
Chen-Hsiang Yu, Robert C. Miller
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Multitasking and monotasking: the effects of mental workload on deferred task interruptions
Recent research has found that forced interruptions at points of higher mental workload are more disruptive than at points of lower workload. This paper investigates a complementa...
Dario D. Salvucci, Peter Bogunovich
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups
The “wisdom of crowds” argument emphasizes the importance of diversity in online collaborations, such as open source projects and Wikipedia. However, decades of research on di...
Jilin Chen, Yuqing Ren, John Riedl
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The infrastructure problem in HCI
HCI endeavors to create human-centered computer systems, but underlying technological infrastructures often stymie these efforts. We outline three specific classes of user experie...
W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman, Erika Shehan Poo...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
ManyNets: an interface for multiple network analysis and visualization
Traditional network analysis tools support analysts in studying a single network. ManyNets offers these analysts a powerful new approach that enables them to work on multiple netw...
Manuel Freire, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Where there's a will there's a way: mobile media sharing in urban india
We present the results of a qualitative study of the sharing and consumption of entertainment media on low-cost mobile phones in urban India, a practice which has evolved into a v...
Thomas N. Smyth, Satish Kumar, Indrani Medhi, Kent...
ACHI
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Music Box: An Algorithm for Producing Visual Music
— This research proposes a method for producing music via visual composition in a computer-game like environment. This is accomplished through the development of artificial intel...
Lindsay Grace
ACHI
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Simulating On-the-Road Behavior Using a Driving Simulator
—In this paper, we summarize the initial results with regard to the question to what extent driving simulators can be used to serve as cheap and easy realizable environments for ...
Andreas Riener
ACHI
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Simulation Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract—The development of human-robot interaction scenarios is a strongly situation-dependent as well as an extremely dynamic task. Humans interacting with the robot directly r...
Norbert Schmitz, Jochen Hirth, Karsten Berns