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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Tangibles for children, : the challenges
A significant proportion of research in the field of tangible interaction involves children. A common aspiration is to offer benefits through tangibility, related to ease of use a...
Bieke Zaman, Vero Vanden Abeele, Panos Markopoulos...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Cheese cam: unconscious interaction between humans and a digital camera
In everyday life, humans interact with many products. In many of these interactions, a person performs an action with, toward, or in the vicinity of a product and then the product...
Boram Lee, Woohun Lee
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The effect of affective iconic realism on anonymous interactants' self-disclosure
In this paper, we describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of avatars' visual fidelity and users' anticipated future interaction o...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, James H. Watt
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Body-based interaction for desktop games
Interaction for desktop games is mostly limited to keyboard and mouse input. We are investigating the benefits of adding body-based interaction to complement keyboard and mouse in...
Mara G. Silva, Doug A. Bowman
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Remote impact: shadowboxing over a distance
Florian `Floyd' Mueller Distance Lab Horizon Scotland The Enterprise Park Forres, Moray IV36 2AB UK floyd@exertioninterfaces.com Stefan Agamanolis Distance Lab Horizon Scotlan...
Florian Mueller, Stefan Agamanolis, Martin R. Gibb...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Heat, fire and temperature: the industrial revolution and HCI
HCI has many challenges and internal debates (for example, where is our theory? What is the role of design in HCI? What is the relationship between research and practice? How do w...
David J. Gilmore
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The design of ViVA: a mixed-initiative visual vocabulary for aphasia
In this paper, we present the design of ViVA, a visual vocabulary for aphasia. Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that causes variability of impairments affecting individual...
Sonya S. Nikolova, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Perry R....
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
HCI for the real world
HCI as a field comfortably and unquestionably links itself with the corporate world. What does this mean in terms of an ethics of problem choice, meaning the considerations that i...
Nicholas Knouf
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Predicting shoppers' interest from social interactions using sociometric sensors
Marketing research has longed for better ways to measure consumer behavior. In this paper, we explore using sociometric data to study social behaviors of group shoppers. We hypoth...
James Begole, Maurice Chu, Oliver Brdiczka, Taemie...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Design and adoption of social collaboration software within businesses
Social networking and collaboration sites are having a large impact on people's personal lives. These same applications, similar functions and related experiences are being a...
Jason Blackwell, John Sheridan, Keith Instone, Dav...