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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
There is growing interest in technologies that support user experiences emphasizing aesthetic satisfaction and enjoyment rather than task accomplishment. Evaluating such experienc...
This position paper for the CHI2005 Development Consortium introduces the Local Ambassadors Initiative of the User Experience Network (UXnet), a collaborative international vision...
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...
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...
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...