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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Implications for designing the user experience of DVD menus
DVD menus often miss out on usability and are complex and difficult to navigate through. One of the main problems is the lack of design standards. By conducting an expert walkthro...
Thomas Költringer, Martin Tomitsch, Karin Kap...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Dynamic speedometer: dashboard redesign to discourage drivers from speeding
We apply HCI design principles to redesign the dashboard of the automobile to address the problem of speeding. We prototyped and evaluated a new speedometer designed with the expl...
Manu Kumar, Taemie Kim
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Design requirements for more flexible structured editors from a study of programmers' text editing
A detailed study of Java programmers' text editing found that the full flexibility of unstructured text was not utilized for the vast majority of programmers' character-...
Andrew Jensen Ko, Htet Htet Aung, Brad A. Myers
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Compensating for low frame rates
Experiments were conducted to investigate the interdependency of frame rates (30, 15, 10 fps) and audiovisual skew (from +163 to -233 ms1 ). Noised nonsense words like 'abaga...
Hendrik Knoche, Hermann de Meer, David Kirsh
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Preliminary evaluation of the interactive drama facade
There is growing interest in technologies that support user experiences emphasizing aesthetic satisfaction and enjoyment rather than task accomplishment. Evaluating such experienc...
Rachel Lee Knickmeyer, Michael Mateas
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Local ambassadors: local action/global impact
This position paper for the CHI2005 Development Consortium introduces the Local Ambassadors Initiative of the User Experience Network (UXnet), a collaborative international vision...
Dirk Knemeyer, Nick Finck, Matteo Penzo
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Benefits of animated scrolling
We examined the benefits of animated scrolling using four speeds and three different document types in terms of task speed, accuracy and user preference. We considered reading tas...
Christian Klein, Benjamin B. Bederson
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Measuring the effective parameters of steering motions
The steering law model describes pointing device motion through constrained paths. Previous uses of the model are deficient because they are built using only error-free responses,...
I. Scott MacKenzie, Sergey Kulikov, Wolfgang St&uu...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Flexible timeline user interface using constraints
Authoring tools routinely include a timeline representation to allow the author to specify the sequence of animations and interactions. However, traditional static timelines are b...
Kazutaka Kurihara, David Vronay, Takeo Igarashi