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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Playful toothbrush: ubicomp technology for teaching tooth brushing to kindergarten children
This case study in UbiComp technology and design presents a "Playful Toothbrush" system for assisting parents and teachers to motivate kindergarten children to learn pro...
Yu-Chen Chang, Jin-Ling Lo, Chao-Ju Huang, Nan-Yi ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Improving meeting capture by applying television production principles with audio and motion detection
Video recordings of meetings are often monotonous and tedious to watch. In this paper, we report on the design, implementation and evaluation of an automated meeting capture syste...
Abhishek Ranjan, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Ravin Balakr...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Collaborating to remember: a distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments
Individuals with cognitive deficits and their families are prime examples of collaborative "systems" that seek to perform everyday tasks together. Yet there has been lit...
Mike Wu, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Brian Richards, Rona...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Targeting across displayless space
Multi-monitor displays and multi-display environments are now common. Cross-display cursor movement, in which a user moves the pointer from one display to another, occurs frequent...
Miguel A. Nacenta, Regan L. Mandryk, Carl Gutwin
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Attention by proxy? issues in audience awareness for webcasts to distributed groups
Instructor/student interaction in e-learning environments can positively impact both student learning and instructor satisfaction. In online webcast lectures, however, interaction...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Clarissa Mak, Saul Greenberg,...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
AutoCardSorter: designing the information architecture of a web site using latent semantic analysis
In this paper, we describe an innovative tool that supports the design and evaluation of the information architecture of a Web site. The tool uses Latent Semantic Analysis and hie...
Christos Katsanos, Nikolaos K. Tselios, Nikolaos M...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Navigation techniques for dual-display e-book readers
Existing e-book readers do not do a good job supporting many reading tasks that people perform, as ethnographers report that when reading, people frequently read from multiple dis...
Cassandra Lewis, François Guimbretiè...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Impact of screen size on performance, awareness, and user satisfaction with adaptive graphical user interfaces
Adaptive personalization, where the system adapts the interface to a user's needs, has the potential for significant performance benefits on small screen devices. However, re...
Leah Findlater, Joanna McGrenere
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Mischief: supporting remote teaching in developing regions
Mischief is a system to support traditional classroom practices between a remote instructor and a group of collocated students. Meant for developing regions, each student in the c...
Neema Moraveji, Taemie Kim, James Ge, Udai Singh P...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Stane: synthesized surfaces for tactile input
Stane is a hand-held interaction device controlled by tactile input: scratching or rubbing textured surfaces and tapping. The system has a range of sensors, including contact micr...
Roderick Murray-Smith, John Williamson, Stephen Hu...