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CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
A user study of policy creation in a flexible access-control system
Significant effort has been invested in developing expressive and flexible access-control languages and systems. However, little has been done to evaluate these systems in practic...
Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Robert W. Reeder,...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
A bright green perspective on sustainable choices
We present a qualitative study of 35 United States households whose occupants have made significant accommodations to their homes and behaviors in order to be more environmentally...
Allison Woodruff, Jay Hasbrouck, Sally Augustin
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
Evaluation of a role-based approach for customizing a complex development environment
Coarse-grained approaches to customization allow the user to enable or disable groups of features at once, rather than individual features. While this may reduce the complexity of...
Leah Findlater, Joanna McGrenere, David Modjeska
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
Employing patterns and layers for early-stage design and prototyping of cross-device user interfaces
Designing UIs that run across multiple devices is increasingly important. To address this, we have created a prototyping tool called Damask, which targets web UIs that run on PCs ...
James Lin, James A. Landay
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
FacetZoom: a continuous multi-scale widget for navigating hierarchical metadata
Faceted browsing is a promising way to incrementally refine data sets. Current approaches do not scale well in terms of screen size and have shortcomings in interacting with hiera...
Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch, Markus Weiland
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
MAHI: investigation of social scaffolding for reflective thinking in diabetes management
In the recent years, the number of individuals engaged in self-care of chronic diseases has grown exponentially. Advances in computing technologies help individuals with chronic d...
Lena Mamykina, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Patricia David...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
Optimal parameters for efficient crossing-based dialog boxes
We present an empirical analysis of crossing-based dialog boxes. First, we study the spatial constraints required for efficient crossing-based interactions in the case of a simple...
Morgan Dixon, François Guimbretière,...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
ArtLinks: fostering social awareness and reflection in museums
Technologies in museums often support learning goals, providing information about exhibits. However, museum visitors also desire meaningful experiences and enjoy the social aspect...
Dan Cosley, Joel Lewenstein, Andrew Herman, Jenna ...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
Conversation pivots and double pivots
Many sites on the web offer collaborative databases that catalog items such as bands, events, products, or software modules. Conversation pivots allow readers to navigate from pag...
Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Nathan Oostendorp, Michael He...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 27 days ago
Experience sampling for building predictive user models: a comparative study
Experience sampling has been employed for decades to collect assessments of subjects' intentions, needs, and affective states. In recent years, investigators have employed au...
Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz