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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Comedia: mobile group media for active spectatorship
Previous attempts to support spectators at large-scale events have concentrated separately on real-time event information, awareness cues, or media-sharing applications. CoMedia c...
Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Tommi Ilmonen, J...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Towards developing assistive haptic feedback for visually impaired internet users
Haptic technologies are thought to have the potential to help blind individuals overcome the challenges experienced when accessing the Web. This paper proposes a structured partic...
Ravi Kuber, Wai Yu, Graham McAllister
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Provoking sociability
In this study, we explore the potential usefulness of disturbing, uncomfortable systems, demonstrating that provocative technology can have a positive effect on social relationshi...
Brooke E. Foucault, Helena M. Mentis, Phoebe Senge...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Modeling steering within above-the-surface interaction layers
Interaction techniques that utilize the space above the display surface to extend the functionalities of digitized surfaces continue to emerge. In such techniques, movements are c...
Raghavendra S. Kattinakere, Tovi Grossman, Sriram ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
"Jump and refine" for rapid pointing on mobile phones
Standard input devices for mobile phones are directional keys and discrete thumb-joysticks. These devices are dedicated to the discrete GUIs of the phones (eg. scroll lists and sm...
Martin Hachet, Joachim Pouderoux, Florence Tyndiuk...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Studying antecedents of emotional experiences in interactive contexts
This paper describes a research approach to the experimental study of emotional experiences and their connections to other components of user experience in human-technology intera...
Manfred Thüring, Sascha Mahlke
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
BrickRoad: a light-weight tool for spontaneous design of location-enhanced applications
It is difficult to design and test location-enhanced applications. A large part of this difficulty is due to the added complexity of supporting location. Wizard of Oz (WOz) has be...
Alan L. Liu, Yang Li
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Computational composites
A computational composite is a material in which computations contribute to the properties of the material through their capability to control transitions between states in the oth...
Anna Vallgårda, Johan Redström
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Multiview: improving trust in group video conferencing through spatial faithfulness
Video conferencing is still considered a poor alternative to face-to-face meetings. In the business setting, where these systems are most prevalent, the misuse of video conferenci...
David T. Nguyen, John Canny