So called intractable conflicts may benefit from more modest and socially oriented approaches than those based on classical conflict resolution techniques. This paper is inspired ...
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
Multi-flick, which consists of repeated flick actions, has received media attention as an intuitive and natural document-scrolling technique for stylus based systems. In this pape...
Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitari...
Fairground: Thrill Laboratory was a series of live events that augmented the experience of amusement rides. A wearable telemetry system captured video, audio, heart-rate and accel...
This paper presents a new study of the role, importance and meaning of sound in the home. Drawing on interview data and sound recordings gathered from seven households, this study...
Gerard Oleksik, David Frohlich, Lorna M. Brown, Ab...
This paper presents a study of finger-based text entry for mobile devices with touchscreens. Many devices are now coming to market that have no physical keyboards (the Apple iPhon...
Shape writing is an input technology for touch-screen mobile phones and pen-tablets. To shape write text, the user spells out word patterns by sliding a finger or stylus over a gr...
Tangible User Interfaces are well-suited to handling threedimensional data sets by direct manipulation of real objects in space, but current interfaces can make it difficult to lo...
Leonardo Bonanni, Jason Alonso, Neil Chao, Greg Va...
A reliable and unobtrusive measurement of working memory load could be used to evaluate the efficacy of interfaces and to provide real-time user-state information to adaptive syst...
David B. Grimes, Desney S. Tan, Scott E. Hudson, P...