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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A comparative evaluation on tree visualization methods for hierarchical structures with large fan-outs
Hierarchical structures with large fan-outs are hard to browse and understand. In the conventional node-link tree visualization, the screen quickly becomes overcrowded as users op...
Hyunjoo Song, Bo Hyoung Kim, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The tower of Babel meets web 2.0: user-generated content and its applications in a multilingual context
This study explores language's fragmenting effect on usergenerated content by examining the diversity of knowledge representations across 25 different Wikipedia language edit...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Trying too hard: effects of mobile agents' (Inappropriate) social expressiveness on trust, affect and compliance
Mobile services can provide users with information relevant to their current circumstances. Distant services in turn can acquire local information from people in an area of intere...
Henriette S. M. Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Tim van Slo...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Protractor: a fast and accurate gesture recognizer
Protractor is a novel gesture recognizer that can be easily implemented and quickly customized for different users. Protractor uses a nearest neighbor approach, which recognizes a...
Yang Li
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The life and times of files and information: a study of desktop provenance
In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, provenance refers to the history and genealogy of a document or file. Provenance helps us to understand the evolution and relationships...
Carlos Jensen, Heather Lonsdale, Eleanor Wynn, Jil...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Supporting coordination in surgical suites: physical aspects of common information spaces
To accommodate frequent emergencies, interruptions, and delays, hospital staff continually make and coordinate changes to the surgery schedule. The technical and social aspects of...
Peter Scupelli, Yan Xiao, Susan R. Fussell, Sara B...
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
vSked: an interactive visual schedule system for use in classrooms for children with autism
Children with autism often experience substantial challenges in understanding, structuring, and predicting the activities in their daily lives. The use of symbols to represent a s...
Michael T. Yeganyan, Meg Cramer, Lou Anne Boyd, Gi...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Design's processional character
In this paper, we examine the ideas behind and reactions to a prototype online tool designed, in-house, for an art college's interaction design department. The web-based prot...
Laurel Swan, Diana Tanase, Alex S. Taylor
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Designing for the invisible: user-centered design of infrastructure awareness systems
Infrastructure awareness systems reveal invisible aspects of infrastructures to their existing or potential users. Designing such systems is challenging as it requires making visi...
Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, Aurélien ...