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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An empirical assessment of adaptation techniques
The effectiveness of adaptive user interfaces highly depends on the how accurately adaptation satisfies the needs of users. This paper presents an empirical study that examined tw...
Theophanis Tsandilas, Monica M. C. Schraefel
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The virtual raft project: a mobile interface for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
This paper presents a novel and intuitive paradigm for interacting with autonomous animated characters. This paradigm utilizes a mobile device to allow people to transport charact...
Bill Tomlinson, Man Lok Yau, Jessica O'Connell, Ks...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Multiple virtual rafts: a multi-user paradigm for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
This paper describes a multi-user version of the "Virtual Raft Project" being exhibited in the Interactivity Program at CHI 2005. The Virtual Raft Project is an interact...
Bill Tomlinson, Jesse Gray, Man Lok Yau
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Polymorphic letters: transforming pen movements to extend written expression
We are developing a digital writing tool, Polymorphic Letters (PL), to investigate hand and pen movements as they may extend and enrich expression in written language. PL recogniz...
Andrea Taylor, Zoltan Foley-Fisher, Carol Stroheck...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Information search: the intersection of visual and semantic space
In the context of an information search task, does the visual salience of items interact with information scent? That is, do things like bold headlines or highlighted phrases inte...
Franklin P. Tamborello II, Michael D. Byrne
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Notes on fridge surfaces
Drawing on ongoing ethnographic investigations into home life, this paper presents detailed findings from a preliminary examination of refrigerator surfaces. The use and organizat...
Laurel Swan, Alex S. Taylor
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
eMoto: affectively involving both body and mind
It is known that emotions are experienced by both body and mind. Oftentimes, emotions are evoked by sub-symbolic stimuli, such as colors, shapes, gestures, or music. We have built...
Anna Ståhl, Kristina Höök, Petra S...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Flipper: a new method of digital document navigation
Page flipping is an important part of paper-based document navigation. However this affordance of paper document has not been fully transferred to digital documents. In this paper...
François Guimbretière, Liyang Sun
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Virtual rear projection: do shadows matter?
Rear projection of large-scale upright displays is often preferred over front projection because of the lack of shadows that occlude the projected image. However, rear projection ...
Jay Summet, Gregory D. Abowd, Gregory M. Corso, Ja...