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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Patterns of empathy in online communication
This article presents an investigation of empathy within an online community for older people (SeniorNet). Qualitative content analysis of 400 messages from a discussion board abo...
Ulrike Pfeil, Panayiotis Zaphiris
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Enhancing ubiquitous computing with user interpretation: field testing the home health horoscope
Domestic ubiquitous computing systems often rely on inferences about activities in the home, but the open-ended, dynamic and heterogeneous nature of the home poses serious problem...
William W. Gaver, Phoebe Sengers, Tobie Kerridge, ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Let's go to the whiteboard: how and why software developers use drawings
Software developers are rooted in the written form of their code, yet they often draw diagrams representing their code. Unfortunately, we still know little about how and why they ...
Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine, Andr...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Consuming video on mobile devices
Kenton O'Hara, April Slayden Mitchell, Alex Vorbau
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Vio: a mixed-initiative approach to learning and automating procedural update tasks
Today many workers spend too much of their time translating their co-workers' requests into structures that information systems can understand. This paper presents the novel ...
John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic, Isaac Simmons, Ia...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Modeling pointing at targets of arbitrary shapes
We investigate pointing at graphical targets of arbitrary shapes. We first describe a previously proposed probabilistic Fitts' law model [7] which, unlike previous models tha...
Tovi Grossman, Nicholas Kong, Ravin Balakrishnan
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Shallow-depth 3d interaction: design and evaluation of one-, two- and three-touch techniques
On traditional tables, people frequently use the third dimension to pile, sort and store objects. However, while effective and informative for organization, this use of the third ...
Mark S. Hancock, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Andy C...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
An observational study on information flow during nurses' shift change
We present an observational study that was conducted to guide the design and development of technologies to support information flow during nurses' shift change in a hospital...
Charlotte Tang, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Pointing lenses: facilitating stylus input through visual-and motor-space magnification
Using a stylus on a tablet computer to acquire small targets can be challenging. In this paper we present pointing lenses ? interaction techniques that help users acquire and sele...
Gonzalo Ramos, Andy Cockburn, Ravin Balakrishnan, ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A minimal model for predicting visual search in human-computer interaction
Visual search is an important part of human-computer interaction. It is critical that we build theory about how people visually search displays in order to better support the user...
Tim Halverson, Anthony J. Hornof