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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Distributed participatory design
This paper contains a study on how Participatory Design (PD) and distributed software development (DSD) are linked up and whether Distributed Participatory Design is an inherent pa...
Karin Danielsson, Amir M. Naghsh, Dorina C. Gumm, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Twend: twisting and bending as new interaction gesture in mobile devices
In this work we present a hardware prototype that uses bending gestures as input for a mobile device and experimental setups that compare possible gestures with other, more tradit...
Gero Herkenrath, Thorsten Karrer, Jan Borchers
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A survey of collaborative web search practices
Todays Web browsers provide limited support for rich information-seeking and information-sharing scenarios. A survey we conducted of 204 knowledge workers at a large technology co...
Meredith Ringel Morris
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
From meiwaku to tokushita!: lessons for digital money design from japan
Based on ethnographically-inspired research in Japan, we report on people's experiences using digital money payment systems that use Sony's FeliCa near-field communicati...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Wendy March, Bill Maurer
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Graffiti vs. unistrokes: an empirical comparison
Unistrokes and Graffiti are stylus-based text entry techniques. While Unistrokes is recognized in academia, Graffiti is commercially prevalent in PDAs. Though numerous studies hav...
Steven J. Castellucci, I. Scott MacKenzie
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Use and reuse of shared lists as a social content type
Social networking sites support a variety of shared content types such as photos, videos, or music. More structured or form-based social content types are not mainstream but we ha...
Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Da...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Using tags to assist near-synchronous communication
In this work, we introduce the use of tags to support the near synchronous use of instant messaging (IM). As a proof-of-concept, we developed a plug-in in Lotus Sametime, an enter...
Gary Hsieh, Jennifer Lai, Scott E. Hudson, Robert ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Photos on the go: a mobile application case study
We designed and iterated on a photo browsing application for high-end mobile phones. The application, Zurfer, supports viewing of photos from the user, their contacts, and the gen...
Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, Vlad Kaplun