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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Wedge: clutter-free visualization of off-screen locations
To overcome display limitations of small-screen devices, researchers have proposed techniques that point users to objects located off-screen. Arrow-based techniques such as City L...
Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin, Pou...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Friends and foes: ideological social networking
Traditional online social network sites use a single monolithic "friends" relationship to link users. However, users may have more in common with strangers, suggesting t...
Gábor Szabó, Michael J. Brzozowski, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
In-car gps navigation: engagement with and disengagement from the environment
Although in-car GPS navigation technology is proliferating, it is not well understood how its use alters the ways people interpret their environment and navigate through it. We ar...
Gilly Leshed, Theresa Velden, Oya Rieger, Blazej J...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Supporting the analytical reasoning process in information visualization
This paper presents a new information visualization framework that supports the analytical reasoning process. It consists of three views - a data view, a knowledge view and a navi...
Yedendra Babu Shrinivasan, Jarke J. van Wijk
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: improved preference, similar performance
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The sound of touch: physical manipulation of digital sound
The Sound of Touch is a new tool for real-time capture and sensitive physical stimulation of sound samples using digital convolution. Our hand-held wand can be used to (1) record ...
David Merrill, Hayes Raffle, Roberto Aimi
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Evaluating visual cues for window switching on large screens
An increasing number of users are adopting large, multimonitor displays. The resulting setups cover such a broad viewing angle that users can no longer simultaneously perceive all...
Raphael Hoffmann, Patrick Baudisch, Daniel S. Weld
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Quickdraw: the impact of mobility and on-body placement on device access time
We investigate the effect of placement and user mobility on the time required to access an on-body interface. In our study, a wrist-mounted system was significantly faster to acce...
Daniel Ashbrook, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad S...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with wikidashboard
Wikis are collaborative systems in which virtually anyone can edit anything. Although wikis have become highly popular in many domains, their mutable nature often leads them to be...
Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi, Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pe...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
AAMU: adaptive activation area menus for improving selection in cascading pull-down menus
Selecting items in cascading pull-down menus is a frequent task in most GUIs. These selections involve two major components: steering and selection, with the steering component be...
Erum Tanvir, Jonathan Cullen, Pourang Irani, Andy ...