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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing for and with diaspora: a case study of work for the truth and reconciliation commission of liberia
We describe our experiences in designing new media technologies in cooperation with Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This work includes two major projects: a dy...
Michael L. Best, Thomas N. Smyth, Daniel Serrano-B...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Ptz control with head tracking for video chat
This paper describes a user interface for video chat that is capable of panning, tilting, and zooming (PTZ) operation using head tracking. The approach is to map a captured 3D pos...
Kota Yamaguchi, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bringing web 2.0 to government research: a case study
DASHlink is a public NASA research collaboration website. Web 2.0 style content generation and social software technologies along with a communitymoderated posting policy make it ...
Francesca A. Barrientos, Elizabeth A. Foughty, Daw...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Using temporal patterns (t-patterns) to derive stress factors of routine tasks
We describe the use of a statistical technique called Tpattern analysis to derive and characterize the routineness of tasks. T-patterns provide significant advantages over traditi...
Oliver Brdiczka, Norman Makoto Su, Bo Begole
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Information foraging in E-voting
In this paper, we present a case study of humaninformation interaction in the online realm of politics. The case study consists of a participant observed while searching and brows...
Ravi K. Vatrapu, Scott P. Robertson
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sharing digital photographs in the home by tagging memorabilia
Abstract Within the home, digital photos lack the physical affordances that make collocated photo-sharing easy and opportunistic. Family members have difficulty accessing the perso...
Saul Greenberg, Michael Nunes
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Physical heart in a virtual body
In this video we present a special guitar that combines physical acoustic properties with virtual capabilities. A wooden resonator - a unique, replaceable piece of wood that gives...
Amit Zoran, Marco Coppiardi, Paula Aguilera, Patti...