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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Acquiring a professional "second life": problems and prospects for the use of virtual worlds in business
The current surge of interest in virtual worlds suggests they are poised to make an evolutionary leap to the workplace, as instant messaging did a decade ago. In recent work we ha...
Jason B. Ellis, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Storytelling through drawings: evaluating tangible interfaces for children
This paper presents an ongoing study comparing the potential and the quality of the experiences provided by tangible versus traditional interfaces. The study was carried with two ...
Cristina Sylla, Pedro Branco, Clara Coutinho, Mari...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Citedness, uncitedness, and the murky world between
We test a recent claim in an opinion piece (interactions, May/June 2008, pp. 45-47) that publications by HCI researchers have little or no impact. The alleged "phenomenon of ...
I. Scott MacKenzie
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Interactive slide: an interactive playground to promote physical activity and socialization of children
We present a novel playground platform that will hopefully help in countering two important issues in children in the developed world: lack of physical activity and lack of social...
Joan Soler-Adillon, Narcís Parés
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Multi-point touch input method for Korean text entry
Multi-touch interfaces are becoming popular as a new input means for the various applications. In this paper, we suggest a new Korean text entry method using a multi-touch interfa...
Heesook Shin, Woohun Lee, Geehyuk Lee, Ilyeon Cho
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Waterhouse: enabling secure e-mail with social networking
We present Waterhouse, a system for sending and receiving cryptographically protected electronic mail ("secure e-mail"). We show how an existing e-mail interface can be ...
Alex P. Lambert, Stephen M. Bezek, Karrie Karahali...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Engagement by design
Timothy W. Bickmore, Sunny Consolvo, Stephen S. In...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Towards systematic usability verification
Although usability is the core aspect of the whole HCI research field, it still waits for its economic breakthrough. There are some corporations that are famous for their usable p...
Jan Borchers, Jonathan Diehl, Markus Jordans, Max ...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
CubeBrowser: a cognitive adapter to explore media databases
CubeBrowser is the concept study for a six-display cube with digital screens that makes it possible to browse online databases like flickr. The control of navigation is exclusivel...
Ludwig Zeller, Lasse Scherffig
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Coralog: use-aware visualization connecting human micro-activities to environmental change
This paper describes the goal, design approach and specification, and preliminary use test of a use-aware ambient media called Coralog. Coralog is a widget which detects the durat...
Tanyoung Kim, Hwajung Hong, Brian Magerko