CHI 2013 Papers with Video Previews
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How Low Can You Go? Human Limits in Small Unidirectional Mouse Movements
Presents an experimental protocol and corresponding findings for the mouse for measuring the smallest unidirectional movement people can perform. Details recommendation guidelines for user interfaces and devices design.
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Exploring the Effects of Space and Place on Engagement with an Interactive Installation
We studied how people engaged with the same interactive installation in ten situations with varying spatial and social properties. The main finding across these studies is that place trumps space
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Interaction Techniques for Creating and Exchanging Content with Public Displays
This paper presents Digifieds, a digital public notice area. We compare interaction techniques for exchanging content with public displays and show that user preferences are based on situation and privacy awareness.
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PT Viz: Towards a Wearable Device for Visualizing Knee Rehabilitation Exercises
PT Viz is a wearable electronic prototype for visualizing knee rehabilitation that was used to explore the needs of physical therapy patients when performing exercises away from the clinic.
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A Trace-based Framework for Analyzing and Synthesizing Educational Progressions
Proposes a framework for using program execution traces to automatically analyze and synthesize progressions of practice problems for any procedural task, focusing on grade-school mathematics and learning games.
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Learning and Performance with Gesture Guides
Existing gesture guides show a tradeoff between performance and learning. A novel guide mitigates this tradeoff. New evaluation methods, and implications for gesture design are proposed.
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Play it by Ear: A Case for Serendipitous Discovery of Places with Musicons
Field study investigating user performance and emotional engagement of various audio-based cues, especially musicons, during POI discovery. Helps location-based service designers design more enjoyable cues for serendipitous journeys.
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Your Left Hand Can Do It Too! Investigating Intermanual, Symmetric Gesture Transfer on Touchscreens
This work examines intermanual gesture transfer, i.e., learning a gesture with one hand and performing it with the other. It was found that stroke-based gestures transfer, and do so symmetrically.
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Tactile Perceptions of Digital Textiles: A Design Research Approach
This paper contributes a methodology to explore the real-life gestures used to understand tactile qualities of deformable materials and re-create their visual and proprioceptive experience in multi-gesture interactive video.
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Métamorphe: Augmenting Hotkey Usage with Actuated Keys
Demonstrate the advantages of shape-changing keyboards for command selection. The Metamorphe keyboard offers a novel height-changing mechanism that provides haptic feedback and enables new key gestures.
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Augmented Endurance: Controlling Fatigue while Handling Objects by Affecting Weight Perception using Augmented Reality
"Augmented Endurance" reveals the implicit effect of augmented reality on our perception of weight and realizes a method to utilize it for human interfaces.
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The Effect of Time-based Cost of Error in Target-directed Pointing Tasks
This paper present a model based on Fitts’ law that predicts the impact of the error cost on the user’s task completion time for target-directed pointing tasks.
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Designing Mobile Health Technology for Bipolar Disorder: A Field Trial of the MONARCA System
We conducted a 14 week field trial of the MONARCA system with 12 patients, reporting on their experiences. Furthermore, the paper discusses three questions regarding design of personal health technologies.
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DesignLibs: A Scenario-Based Design Method for Ideation
This note provides a study of a new design method we developed called “DeisgnLibs”. DesignLibs is an ideation technique with potential users inspired by the children’s game Mad Libs.
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Limiting, Leaving, and (re)Lapsing: An Exploration of Facebook Non-Use Practices and Experiences
This paper reports on a survey about non-use of Facebook. Results show the prevalence of non-use, the variety of types of non-use, and motivations and justifications given for non-use.
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Pirates of the Search Results Page
Usability evaluation and interview findings provide insight into users’ experiences, behaviors, and self-blame in response to search malware; suggests domain familiarity is not enough to recognize a malware-impaired experience.
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The Power of Mobile Notifications to Increase Wellbeing Logging Behavior
We demonstrate the power of passive mobile notifications to increase logging of wellbeing data, particularly food intake, in a mobile health service by 5x.
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FFitts Law: Modeling Finger Touch with Fitts’ Law
Proposed and validated a dual Gaussian distribution hypothesis, from which we derived FFitts law, a novel expansion of Fitts’ law to more reliably model touchscreen target acquisition with finger.
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Octopus: Evaluating Touchscreen Keyboard Correction and Recognition Algorithms via “Remulation”
Proposed and tested remulation, an efficient method for evaluating touchscreen keyboards by replicating prior user study data in real-time, on-device simulation. Implemented Octopus, a remulation-based evaluation tool.
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A Matter of Life and Death: Practical and Ethical Constraints in the Development of a Mobile Verbal Autopsy Tool
We describe the ethical issues raised by the field study of a mobile verbal autopsy device that identifies the probable cause of death from interviewing relatives of the deceased.
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Control Your Game-Self: Effects of Controller Type on Enjoyment, Motivation, and Personality in Game
We show that controller choice affects a player’s enjoyment and motivation of a game, but also affects a player’s perception of themselves during play as measured by their in-game personality.
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Using Behavioral Data to Identify Interviewer Fabrication in Surveys
We show that by instrumenting electronic data-collection software to record logs of behavioral data, and by using supervised classification on this data, we can accurately detect interviewer fabrication in surveys.
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Write Here, Write Now!: An Experimental Study of Group Maintenance in Collaborative Writing
We present a laboratory study of dyads writing together. Results suggest that communication via comments and chat is positively related to social outcomes in synchronous, but not asynchronous, writing.
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Tweeting for Class: Co-Construction as a Means for Engaging Students in Lectures
We present a case study of students in a lecture course using Twitter to contribute instructional content. Results show that students enjoyed this and primarily contributed examples and asked questions.
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Unlimited Editions: Three Approaches to the Dissemination and Display of Digital Art
Three approaches to digital art are explored: in “s[editon]” a limited digital editions website, the iPad “Brushes” Gallery and a field study using digital frames and an immersive projection room.
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Stroke Rehabilitation with a Sensing Surface
We propose a multisensory environment that tracks movements on a sensing platform for patients with a spectrum of cognitive and physical ability. Our study elaborates an interaction model that motivates patients in continued therapeutic engagement.
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Prototyping in PLACE: A Scalable Approach to Developing Location-Based Apps and Games
PLACE is a framework for prototyping location-based apps and games that considers location, activities, and collective experience over time. PLACE is evaluated with Floracaching, a Geocaching game for citizen science.
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Visual Challenges in the Everyday Lives of Blind People
Our results improve the understanding of the visual problems blind people face everyday by examining a sample of the 40,000 questions asked by blind VizWiz Social users.
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iPhone In Vivo: Video Analysis of Mobile Device Use
This paper uses video data to gain new insight into the use of mobile computing devices. Our new method combines screen-capture of iPhone use with video recordings from wearable cameras.
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MultiNet: Reducing Interaction Overhead in Domestic Wireless Networks
A novel method for securely associating devices with domestic wireless networks. Where the interaction is lightweight and consistent across all devices; improving usability, decreasing interaction overhead and enabling access revocation.
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EyeContext: Recognition of High-level Contextual Cues from Human Visual Behaviour
We present EyeContext, a system to automatically infer high-level contextual cues from visual behaviour. We demonstrate the large information content available in long-term visual behaviour that's potentially useful for eye-based behavioural monitoring or life logging.
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A Study on Icon Arrangement by Smartphone Users
This paper studies peoples' arrangements of icons in smartphone menus. From 1,400+ menu screenshots we distill five fundamental concepts for arranging icons. Implications are useful for designing mobile launcher menus.
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I See You There! Developing Identity-Preserving Embodied Interaction for Museum Exhibits
Describes a system that merges input from RFID and Kinect using a probabilistic model: combines fine-grained tracking with identity preservation, supporting the design of personalized embodied interaction for museum exhibits
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Using an Open Card Sort with Children to Categorize Games in a Mobile Phone Application Store
The paper found that when compared with existing categories, children chose categories more aligned to a games goals/aims rather than the more abstract categories currently found in app stores.
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uTouch: Sensing Touch Gestures on Unmodified LCDs
We developed a system that allows any LCD or LED monitors to be converted into a touch sensitive surface without instrunmenting the user or installing the sensors on the monitor.
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Graduate Student Use of a Multi-Slate Reading System
We conducted month-long deployments of a multi-slate active reading system with graduate students in the humanities. Results confirm the importance of added display space, mobility, and support for writing.
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iRotateGrasp: Automatic Screen Rotation based on Grasp of Mobile Devices
Our paper shows that grasps can be used to rotate screens to more accurately match users’ view orientation in both upright and horizontal postures by implementing and evaluating a real-time grasp sensing and recognition prototype.
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iGrasp: Grasp-based Adaptive Keyboard for Mobile Devices
We propose iGrasp, a novel approach that uses implicit grasps of a tablet device to automatically adapt the virtual keyboard’s layout and position to match users’ preferences and help users type earlier.
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A Multi-Site Field Study of Crowdsourced Contextual Help: Usage and Perspectives of End Users and Software Teams
We present a field study of a crowdsourced contextual help system deployed on 4 large web sites. Data was collected over several weeks through usage logs, surveys, and interviews.
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Cascade: Crowdsourcing Taxonomy Creation
Cascade is a novel crowd algorithm that produces a global understanding of large datasets. Cascade is an online algorithm. The tasks given to workers are quick and parallelizable. \
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How Groups of Users Associate Wireless Devices
Presents a guessability study of eliciting device association techniques from groups of non-technical users. Can inform designers of how people conceptualise device association in group scenarios.
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Domestic Food and Sustainable Design: A Study of University Student Cooking and its Impacts
523 meals over 21 days: 705 kg carbon, 325 kWh of electricity. Interviews, cameras and power meters reveal food's impacts, situated within everyday life. Come ponder the sustainable design challenges.
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Food Practices as Situated Action: Exploring and designing for everyday food practices with households
This paper describes everyday practices of food shopping, preparation and consumption. The paper contributes design recommendations and rich descriptions of the configuration of food practices.
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Quantity Estimation in Visualizations of Tagged Text
We present results in the relatively unexplored domain of text annotation. We \ present empirical validation of performance \ at estimation tasks for tagged text, and \ further validate design choices that improve this ability.
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Virtual Birding: Extending an Environmental Pastime into the Virtual World for Citizen Science
This paper investigates how to engage the experienced birder with local knowledge to extend their hobby online. We explore interaction designs for identifying bird vocalisations in large recorded audio datasets gathered through environmental acoustic monitoring.
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Building Open Bridges: Collaborative Remixing and Reuse of Open Educational Resources across Organisations
We broaden understanding of open collaborations through analysing a cross-organisational initiative to remix and reuse Open Educational Resources. We define emerging practices and issues as openness evolves in different domains.
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TypeRighting: Combining the Benefits of Handwriting and Typeface in Online Educational Videos
Examines viewers’ preferences of presentation styles for online educational videos and presents a novel way to combine the benefits of handwriting and typeface called TypeRighting.
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VideoKheti: Making Video Content Accessible to Low-Literate and Novice Users
Reports on the design of a speech and graphics smartphone application for low-literate Indian farmers to help them browse video content. Discusses results found from a user study.
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Front-Camera Video Recordings as Emotion Responses to Mobile Photos Shared Within Close-Knit Groups
Using the front camera of a cell phone in social photography services: capturing video clips and sharing them as emotion responses to the individual photo viewed
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HeartLink: Open Broadcast of Live Biometric Data to Social Networks
The key novelty of HeartLink is the analysis of changes in social connectedness through bio data sharing and the proposed two-way communication between the runner and the viewer.
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Large-Scale Participation: A Case Study of a Participatory Approach to Developing a New Public Library
A case study of a participatory large-scale project in the development of a new public library, with a range of activities and the main lessons from the project.
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Creativity Support for Novice Digital Filmmaking
We show that novice digital filmmakers have difficulty adhering to certain cinematographic conventions. Our subsequent Wizard-of-Oz study showed that a rule-based cinematic critic can reduce the frequency of errors.
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Predicting Postpartum Changes in Emotion and Behavior via Social Media
We consider social media as a tool for behavioral health. We focus on how Twitter posts maybe used to build predictive models about the behavior of new mothers following childbirth.
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Designing for Perceptual Crossing: Designing and Comparing Three Behaviors
We show how to design for perceptual crossing between person and artifact. An experiment shows that person and artifact engage in this strong reciprocal interplay of perceiving and being perceived.
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Social Media and the Police—Tweeting Practices of British Police Forces during the August 2011 Riots
Analyzes the Twitter use by the London Metropolitan and the Greater Manchester Police during the riots in August 2011. Shows that the forces developed very different practices to appropriate Twitter.
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The Effect of Virtual Achievements on Student Engagement
Do badge-based achievement systems actually engage users? We present the first large-scale study providing empirical evidence of their impact within an online learning tool.
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A Pilot Study of Using Crowds in the Classroom
We contribute early evidence and discuss implications for creating a socio-technical infrastructure to use online crowds to increase the authenticity of innovation education.
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TouchViz: A Case Study Comparing Two Interfaces for Data Analytics on Tablets
Two different design approaches to touch based data analytics and an evaluation of relative advantages and benefits thereof.
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Motif Simplification: Improving Network Visualization Readability with Fan, Connector, and Clique Glyphs
It is difficult to visualize large networks. Motif simplification reduces network complexity by replacing common, repeating patterns with representative glyphs. Our controlled study shows this is helpful for many tasks.
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HyperSlides: Dynamic Presentation Prototyping
Motivates and evaluates the design of the HyperSlides system for dynamic prototyping of PowerPoint presentations that are themselves dynamic in their ability to help presenters rehearse and deliver their story.
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SpatialEase: Learning Language through Body Motion
Motivates and evaluates the design of the SpatialEase system for the kinesthetic learning of second language constructions grounded in space and motion, leading to implications for mixed-modality learning games.
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My Profile Is My Password, Verify Me! The Privacy/Convenience Tradeoff of Facebook Connect
We experimentally measure informed consent across users of Facebook Connect, the most widely-used single sign-on (SSO) implementation, to examine whether users understand they are trading privacy for convenience.
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Does My Password Go up to Eleven? The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection
We show that password meters result in stronger passwords during changes to "important" accounts, whereas they do not have an observable effect when users create new passwords for "unimportant" accounts.
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Protecting the Home: Exploring the Roles of Technology and Citizen Activism from a Burglar's Perspective
Examines how burglars perceive deterrents. Finds that alarms, cameras, etc. do not dissuade burglars. In-person citizen activism is the strongest deterrent. Presents implications for crime prevention technology and activist research.
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The Secret Life of a Persona: When the Personal Becomes Private
Two persona cases for a secretive organization are uncovered! Secrecy makes personas problematic. This paper examines how to turn the unspoken into a resource: “Not to tell is to tell”.
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Reality Jockey: Lifting the Barrier between Alternate Realities through Audio and Haptic Feedback
This research works on the concept of how alternate realities from the past can be re-experienced with immersion through the cross-modality of audio and haptics.
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Can We Beat the Mouse with MAGIC?
Animated MAGIC is a novel interaction method that improves the throughput of the mouse by incorporating eye-tracking as a complementary input.
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Wikipedia Classroom Experiment: Bidirectional Benefits of Students' Engagement in Online Production Communities
This paper provides details in the design of a program to encourage students’ contribution to Wikipedia and our quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluating it.
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Brainstorm, Chainstorm, Cheatstorm, Tweetstorm: New Ideation Strategies for Distributed HCI Design
In this paper we describe the results of a design-driven study of “cheatstorming,” a new collaborative ideation technique, to demonstrate how ideation need not require the generation of new ideas.
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Supporting Orientation during Search Result Examination
Describes and evaluates Clickable Snippets, a new method to help searchers transition from results to landing pages. Can help searchers orient themselves in landing-page content and find relevant information faster.
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Beyond Digital and Physical Objects: The Intellectual Work as a Concept of Interest for HCI
Demonstrates how the concept of the work can extend research on the perceived value of digital objects. Shows how a flexible definition of the work can reveal new aspects of a design situation.
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‘See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Hear Me’: Trajectories and Interpretation in a Sculpture Garden
Describes the application of the trajectories framework to the design of a user experience in a sculpture garden. Can assist in designing experiences for engagement and interpretation.
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From Competition to Metacognition: Designing Diverse, Sustainable Educational Games
Educational games are traditionally single-player games. We evaluate commercial multiplayer games in order to inform the design of educational multiplayer games.
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Reifying Social Movement Trajectories
We describe the development of a novel paper-digital interface for recording movement trajectories, designed to assist ethnographers and ethologists in analysis of social movement.
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Same Translation but Different Experience: The Effects of Highlighting on Machine-Translated Conversations
This study demonstrates that keyword highlighting is useful for improving the quality of MT-mediated communication. It informs the design of tools to support communication and collaboration across language boundaries.
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Adaptive Automation and Cue Invocation: The Effect of Cue Timing on Operator Error
Hybrid adaptive automation, which uses critical-events and eye-movements, was compared with critical-event invocation. Both systems reduced errors, but cue timing affected the types of errors made in a supervisory-control task.
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‘Digital Motherhood’: How does technology help new mothers?
This research identified two themes where technology supports mothers: improving confidence and being more than ‘just’ a mother. Findings have implications for digital engagement, digital identity and social networking.
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"I Need to Try This!": A Statistical Overview of Pinterest
We use a quantitative approach to study activity, gender and distinctiveness on Pinterest. This work serves as an early snapshot of Pinterest that later work can leverage.
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ContextType: Using Hand Posture Information to Improve Mobile Touch Screen Text Entry
ContextType is an adaptive text entry system that leverages information about a user’s hand posture to improve mobile touch screen text entry by 20.6%.
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MorePhone: A Study of Actuated Shape Deformations for Flexible Thin-Film Smartphone Notifications
Presents a shape changing flexible smartphone that actuates its body for the purpose of providing notifications. Empirically evaluates mapping between shape actuations, urgency and notification type.
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Footprint Tracker: Supporting Diary Studies with Lifelogging
Study of how visual, location, temporal and social context life logs support recall and reflection over daily activities and experiences in the context of diary studies.
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Effects of Visualization and Note-Taking on Sensemaking and Analysis
The utility of intelligence analysis tools’ individual features is rarely tested. Through experiment, we tested the utility of visualization and notetaking. Our Results question potential constraints on their individual utility.
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Villains, Architects and Micro-Managers: What Tabula Rasa Teaches Us About Game Orchestration
Describes how digital games can allow design like activities at play-time, and how players use them when playing games.
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Informal Cognitive Walkthroughs (ICW): Paring Down and Pairing Up for an Agile World
We present the Informal Cognitive Walkthrough (ICW): an agile user experience research methodology, developed and perfected over three years to meet the needs of a large agile software development team.
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Machinima Production Tools: A Vernacular History of a Creative Medium
In this study of massive scale community creativity, we provide a diachronic analysis of the co-emergence of community-developed creativity tools and the expressive visual language of their medium.
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Slow Design for Meaningful Interactions
In this paper we report on an exploration of how to apply the theory of Slow Design to mass produced products to establish more mindful usage of products.
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Swiss-Cheese Extended: An Object Recognition Method for Ubiquitous Interfaces based on Capacitive Proximity Sensing
Swiss-Cheese Extended proposes a novel real-time method for recognizing continuous object parameters with capacitive proximity sensors. The method is evaluated with a study of a multi-hand interaction device.
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LongPad: A TouchPad Using the Entire Area below the Keyboard of a Laptop Computer
We implemented a proximity- and force-sensing touchpad and explored the feasibility and new possibilities of a long touchpad that utilizes the entire area below the keyboard on a laptop computer.
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Understanding Palm-Based Imaginary Interfaces: The Role of Visual and Tactile Cues when Browsing
The main contribution of this paper is an exploration into the inherent properties of palm-based imaginary interfaces and how the available visual and tactile cues are responsible for user performance.
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HACHIStack: Dual-Layer Photo Touch Sensing for Haptic and Auditory Tapping Interaction
Extends photo touch sensor architecture that can measure the approaching velocity and predict its contact time with the surface. Demonstrates its applications including no-delay haptic feedback for tapping interaction.
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Designing Reusable Alternate Reality Games
This paper presents a framework for making Alternate Reality Games reusable, including replayable, adaptable, and extensible, and presents design strategies for implementing them.
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Combining Crowdsourcing and Google Street View to Identify Street-level Accessibility Problems
In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of using untrained crowd workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk (turkers) to find, label, and assess sidewalk accessibility problems in Google Street View imagery
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Accessible Photo Album: Enhancing the Photo Sharing Experience for People with Visual Impairment
Study of how to support people with visual impairments to partake in photo capturing and sharing activities. Results from online survey and user study evaluation of custom accessible iPhone app.
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Influencing Visual Judgment through Affective Priming
Affective priming (positive and negative emotion) is shown to significantly influence accuracy in visual judgment tasks for several common chart types.
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AD-Binning: Leveraging Around Device Space for Storing, Browsing and Retrieving Mobile Device Content
Presents AD-Binning, a novel interface for future small-screen mobile devices equipped with around-device sensing capabilities, with which screen content can be off-loaded in around-device-space to improve browsing and interaction efficiency.
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LightCloth: Senseable Illuminating Optical Fiber Cloth for Creating Interactive Surfaces
LightCloth is a fabric interface that enables illumination, light communication, and position sensing. We added a sensory function to diffusive optical fibers, and widened the possibilities for new fabric interactions.
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Indirect Shear Force Estimation for Multi-Point Shear Force Operations
We designed a novel method to indirectly estimate shear forces at multiple points. We show the feasibility by implementing a prototype and a demo application.
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"Shared Joy is Double Joy": The Social Practices of User Networks Within Group Shopping Sites
eCommerce has transformed with the emergence of social, apps and mobile. One emerging area is group shopping sites. We investigate these users' routines, sharing networks, purpose and chosen mediums.
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CrashAlert: Enhancing Peripheral Alertness for Eyes-Busy Mobile Interaction while Walking
CrashAlert improves safety when walking and texting with smartphones. CrashAlert uses a depth camera to create ambient visualizations of the obstacles ahead of the user. Results show safer walking behaviors without compromising performance.
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8D: Interacting with a Relightable Glasses-Free 3D Display
We contribute a real-time, relightable, glasses-free 3D display with horizontal and vertical parallax, two interaction scenarios: relightable objects and virtual x-ray, and propose an architecture for future light field interaction devices.
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Multi-Touch Rotation Gestures: Performance and Ergonomics
Studies performance and ergonomics characteristics of multi-touch rotations. Presents findings concerning the effects of angle, diameter, diameter, and position.
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Three Tensions in Participatory Design for Inclusion
In this paper we identify three tensions between the ideals of Participatory Design (PD) and the application of PD approaches in projects including children with severe disabilities.
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Investigating the Use of Circles in Social Networks to Support Independence of Individuals with Autism
Explores using communication circle on a social network site for young adults with autism. Provides implications for social intervention and technical design to support independence of the special needs population.
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Waves: Exploring Idiographic Design for Live Performance
We explore whether idiographic design, an approach that focuses on personal accounts of individuals’ experiences, can support designers in responding to the subtle and complex issues that affect live performance.
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Activity-Centric Support for Ad Hoc Knowledge Work - A Case Study of co-Activity Manager
The core contribution of this paper is the design of a desktop manager that supports personal and collaborative activity-centric workflows with integrated activity-centric collaboration and interruption management tools.
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Factors Impacting Community Response in an Interest-Sharing Network
This study looks at archival data from a new interest-sharing network, So.cl, in order to better understand what user-shared content receives most interaction from others in the community.
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Don't Hide in the Crowd! Increasing Social Transparency Between Peer Workers Improves Crowdsourcing Outcomes
Our study suggests that a careful combination of methods that increase social transparency and different peer-dependent reward schemes can significantly improve crowdsourcing outcomes.
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LEMtool - Measuring Emotions in Visual Interfaces
The paper describes the development and validation of the LEMtool: a non-verbal self-report method for indicating emotions during interaction with a visual interface.
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Contextifier: Automatic Generation of Annotated Stock Visualizations
We present the Contextifier system for automatic annotated stock visualizations from company news. Contextifier’s algorithms, informed by news professional visualizations, account for visual salience, contextual relevance, and notable company events.
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A Longitudinal Study of Follow Predictors on Twitter
Comparing across many variables related to message content, social behavior, and network structure allows us to interpret their relative effect on follower growth from different theoretical perspectives.
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Beyond Being Green: Simple Living Families and ICT
Presents a qualitative study of simple living families' practices and use of ICT. Demonstrates how a holistic perspective on sustainability broadens opportunities for "green" design in HCI.
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Effects of the Display Angle in Museums on User's Cognition, Behavior, and Subjective Responses
This paper described a user study in effects of using horizontal, vertical and tilted flat displays on people visiting in a museum.
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Codeable Objects: Computational Design and Digital Fabrication for Novice Programmers
The combination of programing and digital fabrication offers compelling new opportunities for creative expression. Codeable Objects is a computational-design tool to support novice programmers in production of personal, physical artifacts.
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Evaluating the Efficiency of Physical Visualizations
Presents an infovis study comparing physical to on-screen visualizations. Identifies and evaluates inherent properties of physical interfaces.
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A Comparative Evaluation of Touch-Based Methods to Bind Mobile Devices for Collaborative Interactions
Reports a comparative evaluation of three different methods that allow collocated users to bind their mobile devices together. Crucial for enabling collaborative experiences such as sharing photos or playing games.
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How Fast is Fast Enough? A Study of the Effects of Latency in Direct-Touch Pointing Tasks
Further explores the issue of the effects of latency on input performance. We find that, for pointing on direct-touch, even extremely low latencies reduce performance.
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On the Relation of Ordinary Gestures to TV Screens: General Lessons for the Design of Collaborative Interactive Techniques
If natural and social gesturing in front of TV screens are on-goingly and collaboratively shaped, then viewers might need to adapt such behaviour to emerging gesture tracking technology.
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Shape Switching Mobile Devices- Explorations in Outfit-Centric Design
Fashionable people will adore their mobile phones much more, when the devices organically change to a shape and colors that relate their chosen dressed ensemble for the day.
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Make It Move: A Movement Design Method of Simple Standing Products Based on Systematic Mapping of Torso Movements & Product Messages
For affective movement design of daily products, this paper brought human movement expertise and product design expertise together through a step-by-step research procedure by using mediated prototyping, the robotic torso
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Favors from Facebook Friends: Unpacking Dimensions of Social Capital
This paper provides an innovative way of using Williams’ (2006) social capital measures which are the most widely-used social capital measures in social media studies.
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Access Lens: A Gesture-Based Screen Reader for Real-World Documents
Introduces Access Lens, a computer vision-based system that comboines gesture tracking and optical character recognition to enable blind people to explore physical documents using accessible gestures.
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Why Do People Seek Anonymity on the Internet? Informing Policy and Design
We conducted 44 interviews with people from America, Asia, Europe and Africa, and found a large variation in their motivation and strategies for achieving anonymity on the Internet.
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Studying Spatial Memory and Map Navigation Performance on Projector Phones with Peephole Interaction
Uses a map navigation task and compares users’ navigation performance with touch screen interaction to peephole interaction, users’ location recall performance, and observers’ location recall performance.
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Privacy as Part of the App Decision-Making Process
We found that presenting privacy information to users more clearly and at the time they were making decisions made them more likely to choose Android applications that requested fewer permissions.
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Design Metaphors for Procedural Content Generation in Games
We present procedural content generation (PCG) design metaphors that help designers understand and appropriate PCG, and advance research by highlighting assumptions implicit in existing systems and discourse.
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"Everybody Knows What You’re Doing": A Critical Design Approach to Personal Informatics
The paper introduces critical design strategies to the area of personal informatics in order to encourage users to reflect on the data that is gathered about their online activity.
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inAir: A Longitudinal study of Indoor Air Quality Measurements and Visualizations
This work aims at understanding the indoor air quality dynamics with respect to indoor activities and analyzing behavioral and quantitative changes towards improving air quality from a longitudinal deployment study.
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EventHurdle: Supporting Designers’ Exploratory Interaction Prototyping with Gesture-Based Sensors
This paper presents EventHurdle, a visual gesture authoring tool for designers that supports connecting gesture-based sensors, visually intuitive gesture definitions, and easy prototyping without programming expertise.
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Costs and Benefits of Structured Information Foraging
We introduce a novel interface for capturing online information in a structured but lightweight way and use it to experimentally characterize the costs and benefits of structured sensemaking.
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Preference-based Location Sharing: Are More Privacy Options Really Better?
Users of a location-sharing service opt for more or less granular disclosure when one granularity level is omitted, depending on the subjective distance between the omitted and remaining options.
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Emotions, Experiences and Usability in Real-Life Mobile Phone Use
Longitudinal study investigating emotions over a five-month period of product use. Clarifies the role of emotions in usability, user experience and product success and helps in designing for user experience.
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What Makes You Click: Exploring Visual Signals to Entice Interaction on Public Displays
We investigate mechanisms for enticing interaction on public displays. Eight visual signals were developed and deployed on a university campus to study which visual elements work best at enticing interaction.
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Accessible Online Content Creation By End Users
End-user generated content is common, yet often not accessibility. Our case studies of online communities that create accessible content, shows the importance of negotiated and community-defined notions of accessibility.
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All the News that’s Fit to Read: A Study of Social Annotations for News Reading
Compares annotations for news in logged-in and logged-out contexts. When logged-out, annotations by companies are persuasive, but by strangers aren't. When logged-in, friend annotations are persuasive and improve satisfaction.
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The Mobile Media Actor-Network in Urban India
This paper describes the vast, growing mobile media consumption culture in urban India, which relies on the ubiquity of informal socioeconomic practices for reproducing, sharing, and distributing pirated digital media.
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Mobiles, Music, and Materiality
Building on recent research that highlights the materiality of digital information, we examine the materiality of digital media in mobile music production, reproduction, and reception practices of small town India.
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Scenario-Based Interactive UI Design
Our proposal is a novel tool that enhances the designer’s skill in writing scenarios and designing UIs smoothly and easily.
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Debugging Support for End User Mashup Programming
Debugging mashups is difficult and error-prone. We identify classes of faults in Yahoo! Pipes, present a prototype for automated fault localization, and illustrate its effectiveness via a user study.
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Community Enhanced Tutorials: Improving Tutorials with Multiple Demonstrations
We propose a novel web-based tutorial system that gathers video demonstrations from its users. An initial study shows the presence of multiple demonstrations can help users when following a tutorial.
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Ownership and Control of Point of View in Remote Assistance
This work investigates user performance and behavior related to the issue of who controls the point of view of a gesturing device in a remote assistance scenario
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PixelTone: A Multimodal Interface for Image Editing
PixelTone is a multimodal photo editing interface that combines speech and direct manipulation.
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The Presentation of Health-Related Search Results and Its Impact on Negative Emotional Outcomes
This experiment demonstrates features of health symptom search results that can influence negative emotional outcomes, with results suggesting strategies for web developers and users to help avoid such effects.
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Validating a Mobile Phone Application for the Everyday, Unobtrusive, Objective Measurement of Sleep
This paper describes the validation, using long standing methods from the sleep research community, of an Android phone app that can be used to record sleep and measure sleep efficiency.
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How Categories Come to Matter
We present and discuss interviews with Siri users as a means to understand the role categories play in the design of user studies and of technologies.
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SpaceTop: Integrating 2D and Spatial 3D Interactions in a See-through Desktop Environment
SpaceTop is a concept that integrates 2D and 3D spatial interactions in a desktop workspace. It extends the desktop interface with interaction technology and visualization techniques that enable seamless transitions between 2D and 3D manipulations.
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Binocular Cursor: Enabling Selection on Transparent Displays Troubled by Binocular Parallax
Transparent displays are about to be commercialized, yet it is troubled by binocular parallax. We propose a measure to quantify the usability degradation caused by binocular parallax, and an interaction strategy.
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A Preliminary Investigation of Human Adaptations for Various Virtual Eyes in Video See-Through HMDs
We investigated whether any differences in visuomotor and adaptation trends exist across 16 distinct VD conditions. The performance tasks studied were of two types: foot placement and finger touch.
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Real-Time Perception-Level Translation from Audio Signals to Vibrotactile Effects
This paper presents an automatic translation framework that creates vibrotactile effects from audio content with explicit understandings of the perceptual consequences, for easy production of tactile effects for multimedia content.
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Analyzing Crowd Workers in Mobile Pay-for-Answer Q&A
We studied one of the largest mobile pay-for-answer Q&A services called Jisiklog to understand behaviors of crowdworkers: key motivators of participation, working strategies of experienced users, and longitudinal interaction dynamics.
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Does Slacktivism Hurt Activism?: The Effects of Moral Balancing and Consistency in Online Activism
We examine how simple online activism influence people's likelihood and efforts in a subsequent civic action. The findings have implications for online campaign design.
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Kolibri – Tiny and Fast Gestures for Large Pen-based Surfaces
We introduce Kolibri - a pen-based gesture system that brings shortcuts to interactive white-boards. Users can draw tiny gestures anywhere on the surface without interfering with normal inking.
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Revisiting Social Practices Surrounding Music
This paper extends and contributes to our understanding of social practices and sociality surrounding music in light of recent key technological developments.
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UMUX-LITE – When There’s No Time for the SUS
The UMUX-LITE is a concise (two-item) usability satisfaction questionnaire. Psychometric evaluation indicates its potential usefulness when it is critical to quickly obtain a SUS-like measurement.
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GaussBits: Magnetic Tangible Bits for Portable and Occlusion-Free Near-Surface Interactions
This work presents a system of the passive magnetic tangible designs that enables occlusion-free tangible interactions in the near-surface space of portable displays.
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Beyond the Filter Bubble: Interactive Effects of Perceived Threat and Topic Involvement on Selective Exposure to Information
Investigated whether information bubble can emerge from people's preferential selection between attitude reinforcing versus attitude challenging information in an online environment, and the roles situational factors and personal factors play.
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SidePoint: A Peripheral Knowledge Panel for Presentation Slide Authoring
Implements an implicit search and peripheral panel system for presentation authoring by showing concise knowledge items relevant to the slide content, and investigates the benefits and issues of such peripheral knowledge panels.
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Optimizing Challenge in an Educational Game Using Large-Scale Design Experiments
Online experiments (>80,000 game players in >14,400 conditions) optimized challenge to maximize engagement and learning in an educational game. Alas, what was optimal for engagement was not optimal for learning.
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The Power of Play: Design Lessons for Increasing the Lifespan of Outdated Computers
Why is Visicalc obsolete, but not Super Mario Bros? The continued success of 8-bit computers in developing countries shows how hedonic utility (aka fun) can dramatically extend computer lifespans.
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Muscle-Propelled Force Feedback: Bringing Force Feedback to Mobile Devices
We propose mobile force feedback devices by eliminating motors and instead actuating the user’s muscles using electrical stimulation. Without the motors, we obtain substantially smaller and more energy-efficient devices.
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Consent for All: Revealing the Hidden Complexity of Terms and Conditions
Stimulus paper and plug-in surfacing the readability of web-based terms and conditions. Highlights the role of documents in the online consent process and calls for better readability and design practice.
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Toying with Time: Considering Temporal Themes in Interactive Artifacts
This paper proposes: 1) A framework describing use of time in interactive artifacts, and 2) An ideation method for deliberately and systematically exploring potential temporal behaviors of an interactive artifact.
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Gesture Studio: Authoring Multi-Touch Interactions through Demonstration and Declaration
We present Gesture Studio, a tool for creating multi-touch interactions. It combines the strengths of both programming by demonstration and declaration in an intuitive UI based on video-editing metaphor.
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Understanding Exergame Users’ Physical Activity, Motivation and Behavior Over Time
A school based exergame intervention analysed through the lens of self-efficacy in order to understand in-game behavior, and provide guidance for affective exergame interventions
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Promoting Hotkey Use through Rehearsal with ExposeHK
Introduces ExposeHK, a new interface that promotes hotkey selection. Presents results of three studies showing that ExposeHK increases hotkey use, improves performance and was strongly prefered.
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Why Do They Still Use Paper? Understanding Data Collection and Use in Autism Education
We conducted fieldwork to understand data collection and use in the domain of autism education to explain why current technology had not met staff needs.
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Swifter: Improved Online Video Scrubbing
Swifter is a new technique for navigating streaming videos which presents a grid of thumbnail images during scrubbing operations, and allows the user to directly select the desired playback location.
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Patina: Dynamic Heatmaps for Visualizing Application Usage
Patina is an application independent system which uses accessibility APIs to collect and visualize software application usage data. The primary visualization is a dynamic heatmap overlaid on the application.
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The Effect of Global Instructions on Think-aloud Testing
This study investigates whether deviating from the classic concurrent think-aloud instructions during usability testing induces reactivity: a change in participants’ cognitive processing, which affects task performance measures.
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Categorised Ethical Guidelines for Large Scale Mobile HCI
A discussion of ethical challenges in large scale mobile HCI trials. We identify anonymisation and user expectation as key factors and present proportional guidelines that reflect risks in these areas.
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The Space Between the Notes: Adding Expressive Pitch Control to the Piano Keyboard
This paper presents an extended keyboard interface that engages with pianists' existing training and expertise. Touch sensors add expressive vibrato and pitch bend capabilities without interfering with traditional technique.
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Some Evidence for the Impact of Limited Education on Hierarchical User Interface Navigation
Experimental study shows limited education impacting the ability to navigate a hierarchical UI, even when text-free. Can benefit designers interested in recommendations for UI hierarchies for people with limited education.
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From Codes to Patterns: Designing Interactive Decoration for Tableware
A collaboration between ceramic designers, technologists and a restaurant reveals strategies for creating aesthetic decorative pattern for plates and other tableware that contain multiple embedded visual codes hidden within them.
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Seeing Movement Qualities
Presents fieldwork on mechanisms of user perceptions of movement qualities. Lends to implications for further efforts in designing interactive movement-based systems that strive to capitalize on movement qualities.
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How Does It Play Better? Exploring User Testing and Biometric Storyboards in Games User Research
Our paper is the first study of its kind presented at CHI to report on the value of game user testing and physiological evaluation in providing formative feedback for game development.
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The Emotional Wellbeing of Researchers: Considerations for Practice
We consider the impact which research in sensitive contexts can have on researchers’ emotional wellbeing and on research validity, and ways to incorporate consideration for researchers’ wellbeing into research plans.
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The Challenges of Specifying Intervals and Absences in Temporal Queries: A Graphical Language Approach
Our contributions incude an assessment of the primary user difficulties in specifying queries involving intervals and absences, and two novel temporal query interfaces, designed to offer intuitive access to a wide range of temporal relationships.
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NoteVideo: Facilitating Navigation of Blackboard-style Lecture Videos
We create a summarized image of the video and using it as an in-scene navigation interface that allows users to directly jump to the video frame of choice.
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Crowdfunding inside the Enterprise: Employee-Initiatives for Innovation and Collaboration
Crowdfunding behind a company firewall showed diverse projects, inter-organizational collaborations, and collaborative motivations. Potential interest for HCI researchers, organizational practitioners, and consultants.
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The Design Space of Body Games: Technological, Physical, and Social Design.
Movement-based games are in the limelight today. We argue that for these games, the physical and social settings become just as important design resources as the technology.
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Investigating Self-Reporting Behavior In Long-Term Studies
We provide empirical quantitative long-term data on the reliability of self-reported data collected with mobile devices. We give recommendations for maximizing the reliability of results when conducting long-term app usage studies.
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Improving Touch Accuracy on Large Tabletops Using Predecessor and Successor
We explore how one touch affects the location and orientation of its successor. We show how this can be used to increase touch accuracy on tabletops.
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Memorability of Pre-designed and User-defined Gesture Sets
We analyze memorability aspects of gesture sets, comparing gesture sets created by users, gesture sets created by designers, and stock gesture sets. We present evidence from three studies.
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High-Precision Pointing on Large Wall Displays using Small Handheld Devices
Reports on the design and evaluation of pointing techniques, some of which use head orientation, so the handheld device can also be used for other interactions.
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W3Touch: Metrics-based Web Page Adaptation for Touch
W3Touch contributes a new method of adapting user interfaces for touch interaction, supporting automation based on usability metrics and the evidence of interaction problems on different forms of touch devices.
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Everyday Activities and Energy Consumption: How Families Understand the Relationship
Describes a study of how families tie their everyday routines to their understanding of energy consumption. Outlines how designs can leverage calendars and increase shared knowledge of consumption between family members.
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Age-Related Performance Issues for PIN and Face-Based Authentication Systems
A PIN system and a face-based graphical system were evaluated with younger and older adults. Old benefitted from own-age faces most while young performed well with faces overall.
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Putting Things in Focus: Establishing Co-Orientation Through Video in Context
The CamBlend video collaboration system is used to assess how participants co-orientate around objects, both local or remote, virtual or physical, as well as around people, showing new interactional fractures.
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Exploring Personality-Targeted UI Design in Online Social Participation Systems
We show how personality-targeted UI design can be more effective than design applied to entire populations – much like a medical treatment applied to a person based on his genetic profile.
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Q-Methodology as a Research and Design Tool for HCI
HCI-Q provides statistically valid and qualitatively rich perspectives of the personal significance of designs. HCI-Q provides design constraints by leveraging statistical methods to reveal consensus and conflict among those perspectives.
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Form Digitization in BPO: From Outsourcing to Crowdsourcing?
This work describes findings from an ethnographic study of an outsourced business process for “form digitization”. It is a first step to how crowdsourcing might be applied to business processes.
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Talking about Tactile Experiences
A common problem with designing applications with tactile interfaces is the lack of a vocabulary that allows one to communicate about haptics. We present a human-experiential vocabulary for tactile experiences.
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Fragmentation and Transition: Understanding Perceptions of Virtual Possessions among Young Adults in Spain, South Korea and the United States
Contributes an investigation of young adults' value construction practices with their virtual possessions in South Korea, Spain and the United States and proposes design opportunities in this emerging design space.
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Reducing Disruption from Subtle Information Delivery during a Conversation: Mode and Bandwidth Investigation
We study how much information and via what mode people can receive and process information in the background while not disrupting a face-to-face conversation they are engaged in.
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FlashTouch: Data Communication through Touchscreens
FlashTouch is a new technology that enables data communication between touchscreen-based mobile devices and digital peripheral devices using visible light and capacitive touch.
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The Challenges and Potential of End-User Gesture Customization
We present a study on end-user gesture creation to understand users’ thought processes and the challenges encountered. Our findings provide insight for how to better support gesture customization.
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Tailoring Persuasive Health Games to Gamer Type
We developed models of the efficacy of different motivators of health behavior. Serious game designers can use our results to tailor their games to different player types, potentially increasing the efficacy of persuasive health games
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3D Object Position using Automatic Viewpoint Transitions
IUCA is a new technique for 3D objects manipulation. IUCA proposes to interact in a full-resolution perspective view by integrating transients animated transitions to orthographic views into the manipulation task.
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Improving Two-Thumb Text Entry on Touchscreen Devices
We designed a split keyboard to improve two-thumb text entry on tablet devices. KALQ's design considers grip, coordinated performance of the two thumbs, and linguistic and motor errors.
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WatchIt: Simple Gestures and Eyes-free Interaction for Wristwatches and Bracelets
WatchIt is a prototype device that extends interaction from a watch screen to a wristband or bracelet. We evaluate its use for discrete gestures, continuous control, and eyes-free usage.
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A Tribute to Mad Skill: Expert Amateur Visuality and World of Warcraft Machinima
Analyzing a canon of 300 World of Warcraft machinima, we present findings on the role of creativity support tools in fostering visual design skills among expert amateur machinimators.
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Technology Preferences and Routines for Sharing Health Information during the Treatment of a Chronic Illness
Describes design implications for technologies to support sharing health information within families coping with a chronic illness. Using a mixed-method approach, presents findings outlining affective benefits and costs of communication tools.
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Understanding the Privacy-Personalization Dilemma for Web Search: A User Perspective
This paper aims to understand users’ perceptions of privacy in web search and how these perceptions interact with their desire for personalized search results.
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Listen to it yourself! Evaluating Usability of "What's Around Me?" for the Blind
We present the results of the usability evaluation, conducted in realistic settings, of a novel spatial awareness smartphone application that conveys surrounding points of interest to the blind.
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The Roles of Touch during Phone Conversations: Long-Distance Couples’ Use of POKE in Their Homes
Describes the roles of touch during phone conversations by observing couples’ one month use of POKE in their homes. The results show a potential new application for tactile phone conversations.
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I am What I Eat: Identity & Critical Thinking in an Online Health Forum for Kids
We discuss the design and evaluation of an online forum—TalkBack—that encourages children to critically analyze the messaging in food advertisements and their attitudes towards marketed foods.
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Using fNIRS Brain Sensing to Evaluate Information Visualization Interfaces
We explore the use of fNIRS brain sensing to evaluate information visualization interfaces.
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Interactive Horizon Graphs: Improving the Compact Visualization of Multiple Time Series
Interactive Horizon Graphs---Horizon Graphs with pan and zoom interactions--- significantly increase the number of time series that can be analyzed in parallel for common comparison tasks.
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Electric Materialities and Interactive Technology
Characterizes electric technology by three forms of materiality: the electric object, its electric materiality, and electric power. Presents and analyzes novel interactive form prototypes.
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The Whats and Hows of Programmers’ Foraging Diets
Information Foraging Theory investigation into information diets of professional programmers during debugging, and how these diets interact with their foraging strategies. Helps unify Information Foraging Theory with debugging research.
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Focused and Casual Interactions: Allowing Users to Vary Their Level of Engagement
Investigates how to enable users to vary their engagement in interactions, allowing them to use casual interactions for less \ precision but also with less effort when e.g. tired or busy.
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An Interactive Belt-worn Badge
This paper explores an interactive identity badge with an embedded LCD and an input mechanism based on sensing built into the retractable string which attaches it to the wearer’s belt.
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Interview Approaches to Researching Embodiment
This paper makes a methodological contribution to child computer interaction. It examines three interview approaches, providing guidance on interview choices to explore communicational modes of interaction in tangible learning environments.
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Use of an Agile Bridge in the Development of Assistive Technology
In this paper we present a means for adults with complex communication disabilities to be involved in the User-Centred Design process through the use of a user advocate
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Digital Apartheid: An Ethnographic Account of Racialised HCI in Cape Town Hip-Hop
Ethnography of Cape Town hip-hop performers exploring how technology such as social media supports yet inhibits the development and sustainment of their careers. Raises implications for HCI4D and post-colonial computing.
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Regularly Visited Patches in Human Mobility
This paper proposes a new analytic unit for human mobility research – the patch. Regularly Visited Patches (RVP) identified from GPS-based location data were analyzed, revealing fundamental mobility patterns.
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In-body Experiences: Embodiment, Control, and Trust in Robot-Mediated Communication
Presents empirical results of a controlled experiment on the effects of embodiment and control on trust in user interactions. Offers design guidelines and theoretical implications for robot-mediated communication systems.
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Designing and Theorizing Co-Located Interactions
This paper gives an interwoven account of the theoretical and practical work we undertook in pursuit of designing co-located interactions on mobile devices.
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The Dynamics of Younger and Older Adult’s Paired Behavior when Playing an Interactive Silhouette Game
We present the design and evaluation of an intergenerational game with 60 younger and older players, and report on the communicative and cooperative interaction, with subsequent recommendations.
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Design Research at CHI and its Applicability to Design Practice
We present an analysis of papers from CHI 2011 and draw on interviews with professional designers to suggest ways that CHI research can better support practice.
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Taking Data Exposure into Account: How Does It Affect the Choice of Sign-in Accounts?
We surveyed 575 people to investigate awareness of data exposure when using federated accounts, and willingness to switch accounts given clearer information on data exposure and benefits provided by each.
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Designing with Traces
This paper introduces the analytic category of “material traces,” which with design students envision poignant relationships to the non-human, engaged physics learning, and reflection around breakage.
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Morphees: Toward High “Shape Resolution” in Self-Actuated Flexible Mobile Devices
We introduce the term shape resolution in 10 features, which adds to the existing definitions of screen and touch resolution and helps the design of shape-shifting mobile devices.
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Gesture Output: Eyes-Free Output: Using a Force Feedback Touch Surface
We propose using spatial gestures not only for input but also for output. Analogous to gesture input, gesture output moves the user’s finger in a gesture, which the user then recognizes.
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Augmented Letters: Mnemonic Gesture-Based Shortcuts
Appending a tail to the first letter of a command: Augmented Letters allows users to memorize larger command shortcut vocabularies than Marking Menus, with no overall speed cost.
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PointAssist: Assisting Individuals with Motor Impairments
This paper presents results from evaluating PointAssist with participants with motor impairments in a remote test. It contributes to HCI by showing how PointAssist can be adapted to individual differences.
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Designing Graphical Menus for Novices and Experts: Connecting Design Characteristics with Design Goals
This paper contributes a design space for graphical menus. It connects a set of design goals with a set of design characteristics. The design space helps create better menus.
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Design for Forgetting: Disposing of Digital Possessions after a Breakup
This paper examines the challenges of digital possessions and their disposal following a romantic breakup. We found that digital possessions are often evocative and upsetting leading to distinct disposal strategies.
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Creating and Analyzing Stereoscopic 3D Graphical User Interfaces in Digital Games
Supports GUI designers with a design space to create stereoscopic 3D GUIs for games. Our evaluation shows that perceptual, spatial and diegetic integration provide helpful constraints for influencing user experience.
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Personal Clipboards for Individual Copy-and-Paste on Shared Multi-User Surfaces
Introduces personal clipboards for individual copy-and-paste to multi-user surfaces by implementing three clipboard systems. Provides better understanding of user-identification strategies and can guide the design of personalized surface applications.
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Cultivating Energy Literacy— Results from a Longitudinal Living Lab Study of a Home Energy Management System
The paper presents a 13-month living lab study around the use of Home Energy Management Systems and introduces and discusses the concept of energy literacy as a key observed category.
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When the Price Is Right: Enabling Time-Dependent Pricing of Broadband Data
We study economics and user behavior jointly within HCI and report on qualitative findings from a trial of time-dependent pricing for mobile data to help reduce network congestion.
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Bezel-Tap Gestures: Quick Activation of Commands from Sleep Mode on Tablets
Mobile devices constantly switch to sleep mode to save energy. Our contribution is an always-available shortcuts technique based on combining a bezel tap and a touchscreen contact.
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Let’s Get Together: The Formation and Success of Online Creative Collaborations
We study an online music community by combining a novel path-based regression analysis of the social network with traditional member surveys, uncovering factors that affect online creative collaborations.
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SeeSay and HearSay CAPTCHAs for Mobile Interaction
We propose two alternative designs for CAPTCHAs in which the user says the answer instead of typing it. Output stimuli are provided visually (SeeSay) or auditorily (HearSay).
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Deep Conservation in Urban India and its Implications for the Design of Conservation Technologies
We present a study of energy, water and fuel conservation practices in urban India to highlight a culture of deep conservation and identify new \ opportunities for relevant resource conservation technologies.
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Non-parametric Decision Trees and Online HCI
Through an online study of head interaction techniques, we show that classification and regression trees provide a practical way to analyse the large and complex datasets typical of online HCI.
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“I read my Twitter the next morning and was astonished” A Conversational Perspective on Twitter Regrets
Presents the results of a large-scale online survey that compares regretted tweets and regrets from in-person conversations. Examines the context, timing, means of awareness, and repair strategies for the regrettable messages.
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BeThere: 3D Mobile Collaboration with Spatial Input
We contribute a proof-of-concept system and interactions that show how mobile devices equipped with depth sensors can leverage spatial input and knowledge of our 3D environment to enrich communication.
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Design-Driven Narrative: Using Stories to Prototype and Build Immersive Design Worlds
This paper examines the role of narrative in the process of interactive experience design, focusing on its potential uses in prototyping to uncover deeper and more meaningful user responses.
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Delivering Patients to Sacré Coeur: Collective Intelligence in Digital Volunteer Communities
This study examines the activities of digital volunteers during crisis events, using a distributed cognition perspective to demonstrate how individual ICT users function together as a collectively intelligent cognitive system.
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Still Looking: Investigating Seamless Gaze-supported Selection, Positioning, and Manipulation of Distant Targets
Describes and compares interaction techniques for combining gaze/head and touch input for fluently selecting, positioning and manipulating distant graphical objects. This can help supporting more seamless interactions with distant displays.
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A Multi-touch Interface for Fast Architectural Sketching and Massing
This paper proposes a novel multi-touch interface for architectural Sketching and Massing; it offers a rich set of direct finger gestures for rapid prototyping of contemporary building designs.
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Messaging to Your Doctors: Understanding Patient-Provider Communications via a Portal System
The paper presents a qualitative study on patient-provider communication messages via a patient portal system. We analyze communication themes and investigate portal's impacts on healthcare delivery and information management issues.
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Improving Digital Object Handoff Using the Space Above the Table
We developed and evaluated two new above-the-table digital object handoff techniques, Force-Field and a new innovation ElectroTouch, and found they are significantly faster and less error-prone than traditional surface-only techniques.
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ARTFuL: Adaptive Review Technology for Flipped Learning
Presents adaptive content review technology for students engaged in online learning and empirical results supporting student learning gains. Offers design guidelines for technological support for flipped learning.
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The Design and Field Observation of a Haptic Notification System for Timing Awareness During Oral Presentations
A novel presentation timing approach (automated tactile cues augment chair-speaker communication) is explored with iterative design and observation in live conference settings. Qualitative evaluation generates stakeholder needs and design recommendations.
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Three Perspectives on Behavior Change for Serious Games
We introduce a model of behavior change and persuasion from Environmental Studies and consider its application for serious games for sustainability alongside two other commonly used models.
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Democratizing Technology: Pleasure, Utility and Expressiveness in DIY and Maker Practice
A critical analysis of the practices, values, and politics of Maker and DIY Culture and its implications for HCI Research.
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HomeProxy: Exploring a Physical Proxy for Video Communication in the Home
HomeProxy is a prototype system that supports video messaging in the home. It explores a “no-touch” user experience that allows transitioning from recorded to live video messages.
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At the Interface of Biology and Computation
Presents study of scientific tool for proving stabilization in biological systems. Shows how such tools, using new computational techniques, can introduce frictions but that these frictions can be used constructively.
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Pointing at 3D Target Projections with One-Eyed and Stereo Cursors
We investigate 2D-projected 3D pointing tasks. In particular, we look at the modeling of perspective-scaled 3D targets in screen-plane pointing, while comparing mouse and remote pointing techniques.
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Design to Promote Mindfulness Practice and Sense of Self for Vulnerable Women in Secure Hospital Services
Introduces the design concept of interactive artifacts to engage women with severe mental health problems in therapeutic skills practice. Provides insights from our collaboration with hospital staff for the design.
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Authoring Personal Histories: Exploring the Timeline as a Framework for Meaning Making
We present a study of how older people made digital timelines using Project Greenwich. We explore how the constraints of the timeline metaphor offer a framework for authoring and making.
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Individual User Characteristics and Information Visualization: Connecting the Dots through Eye Tracking
We present results from an eye tracking user study, showing that a user’s cognitive abilities have a significant impact on gaze behavior when performing common information visualization tasks.
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Analyzing Users' Narratives to Understand Experience with Interactive Products
Analyzes narratives of experience with interactive technology with manual and automatic methods. Helps understand the content of such experiences and the relative benefits of methods for studying them.
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Exploring & Designing Tools to Enhance Falls Rehabilitation in the Home
The studies described in the paper explored the usability and acceptance of two distinct types of visual feedback for unsupervised rehabilitation in the home.
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Reveal-it!: The Impact of a Social Visualization Projection on Public Awareness and Discourse
This paper investigates the challenges for a public visualization of a socially-relevant dataset, for the goal of changing the civic awareness of onlookers, through the evaluation of three real-world case studies.
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Carpe ́ Data: Supporting Serendipitous Data Integration in Personal Information Management
This paper focuses on the problem of user-driven data integration on the Web, with the objective of enabling end-users to use the emerging ecosystems of structured data APIs and feeds.
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Small, Medium, or Large? Estimating the User-Perceived Scale of Stroke Gestures
We explore scale as parameter for gesture commands. We deliver a training-free, user- and device-independent scale estimator that can be integrated into existing gestural interfaces with three lines of code.
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MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration
This work describes MotionMA, a system that extracts a quantitative model of movements and generates an analysis and feedback interface for helping other users perform them.
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TOBY: Early Intervention in Autism through Technology
We describe an innovative iPad application for early intervention in autism named TOBY (Therapy Outcome By You). Field trials results are also presented to validate the framework.
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HCI in the Press: Online Public Reactions to Mass Media Portrayals of HCI Research
Describes the use of mass-media to provoke online public commentaries of HCI projects. Will benefit those wanting to engage the public in their research and understand associated strengths and weaknesses.
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An Evaluation of State Switching Methods for Indirect Touch Systems
Comparing four different state switching techniques for indirect touch systems that allow the users to rest their arms on the surfaces while they are in the Tracking state.
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Turbulence in the Clouds: Challenges of Cloud-Based Information Work
Presents results of a qualitative study of information management in the cloud. Describes challenges that will be relevant to designers involved with both cloud-based services and federated identity management.
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Bodily Interaction in the Dark
Describes a body-centric, sound-based interaction using the Microsoft Kinect device, which is performed in the dark. The interaction is designed and analysed in the context of somaesthetics.
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Collaborative Sensemaking on a Digital Tabletop and Personal Tablets: Prioritization, Comparisons, and Tableaux
We describe an investigation of the support that three different display configurations provided for a collaborative sensemaking task: a digital table; personal tablets; and both the tabletop and personal tablets.
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Making Design Probes Work
We present a synthetic account of Probe design and use over a decade conceptualizing the relationship between the properties of probes and their use in design projects.
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FACIT PD: A Framework for Analysis and Creation of Intergenerational Techniques for Participatory Design
This paper describes a framework that can aid design teams in choosing or designing new techniques to design with children regardless of the subject area or method being used.
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A Comparative Evaluation of Multiple Chat Stream Interfaces for Information-intensive Environments
We evaluated two text-based chat interfaces to inform the design of large-scale text information visualizations for information workers who monitor real-time text streams.
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Gender, Topic, and Audience Response: An Analysis of User-Generated Content on Facebook
This paper identifies topics that men and women talk about in Facebook status updates and determines which topics are more likely to receive feedback.
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Bending the Rules: Bend Gesture Classification for Flexible Displays
We propose a bend gesture classification scheme and we evaluate how users naturally perform bend gestures on deformable displays with minimal instruction.
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Older Adults as Digital Content Producers
This paper examines the self-expression and social engagement that occurred when older adults used an iPad application to create and share photographs and messages within a small peer community.
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Instagram at the Museum: Communicating the Museum Experience through Social Photo Sharing
Analyzing both instagrams and practices of instagramming, we examine the resources and concerns that shape the user-driven creation, organisation and sharing of social, multi-layered, aesthetic documents of museum experiences.
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Phoneprioception: Enabling Mobile Phones to Infer Where They Are Kept
We examined where people keep their phones through interviews and an ESM study and demonstrate that reasonably accurate classifications are possible with industry-standard sensors, improved by several other low-cost sensors.
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The Wheels are Turning: Content Rotation on Steering Wheel Displays
This paper investigates how the content of steering wheel mounted displays should react to a rotation of the wheel. Three alternatives are tested and compared with a dashboard display.
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Using Redundancy to Detect Human Error
We explore ways in which a checksum may be used to prevent number entry errors. We look at two methods for implementing the system and highlight the benefits of each.
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Fighting against the Wall: Social Media use by Political Activists in a Palestinian Village
We analyze practices of political activists in a Palestinian village, who demonstrate against Israel’s settlement policy and the separation wall. We describe how social media is appropriated to facilitate interaction ‘on the ground’.
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“I want to imagine how that place looks”: Designing Technologies to Support Connectivity Between Africans Living Abroad and Home
We asked African-born students how they used ICTs to connect with family in their home countries. Findings informed a prototype we evaluated. We discuss novel features to include in interfaces designed to support transnational communication.
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Powering the Cellphone Revolution: Findings from Mobile Phone Charging Trials in Off-Grid Kenya
We provide empirical evidence demonstrating the potential for human-powered devices to meet the phone charging needs of rural, off-grid, mobile phone users in Africa.
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WorldKit: Rapid and Easy Creation of Ad-hoc Interactive Applications on Everyday Surfaces
Describes a paired depth-camera and projector system for on-the-world interaction and a software kit for application development: provides an inexpensive way to support interactions on everyday surfaces.
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Designing Engagement-aware Agents for Multiparty Conversations
Presents quantitative methods to evaluate users’ engagement state and intentions from visual cues. Can assist the design of conversational agents for multiparty dialog in the public space.
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CommunityCompare: Visually Comparing Communities for Online Community Leaders in the Enterprise
Design and evaluation of a new visual, comparison-based analytic system, CommunityCompare, to help leaders assess and identify actions to improve community health. Can enhance design of systems for community leaders.
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Understanding the Conflicting Demands of Family Caregivers Caring for Depressed Family Members
Uncovers the challenges faced by family caregivers of depressed sufferes. Suggest design implications for technologies to improve the wellness of such family caregivers.
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I Can Do Text Analytics! Designing Development Tools for Novice Developers
Describe a user centered iterative design process that developed a tool for text analytics, which enables novice developers to write high quality information extractors on par with state of the art with minimal training.
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Critical Perspective on Persuasive Technology Reconsidered
This paper reflects on the critical perspective on persuasive technology and offers an alternative perspective. It contributes to the HCI field by calling attention to alternative reflective concepts and emerging relevant works.
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Making Touchscreen Keyboards Adaptive to Keys, Hand Postures, and Individuals - A Hierarchical Spatial Backoff Model Approach
We propose a hierarchical spatial backoff model for improving text entry accuracy on touchscreen keyboards. This approach adapts the underlying spatial model to input hand postures, individuals, and key positions, reducing error rate by 13.2%.
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Designing Web-Connected Physical Artefacts for the ‘Aesthetic’ of the Home
In this paper we ask what it means to design domestic web-connected technologies, placing the aesthetic of the home and home life at the centre of our design exploration.
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Probing Bus Stop for Insights on Transit Co-design
We investigate how social computing might support citizens co-design their transit service. We conducted a field study with public transit riders, exploring the issues and controversies that reveal conflicting communities.
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Envisioning Across Generations: A Multi-lifespan Information System for International Justice in Rwanda
With this research we investigate how to account for multi-generational perspectives in the design of multi-lifespan information systems, particularly in support of long-term peace-building and international justice.
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A Value Sensitive Action-Reflection Model: Evolving a Co-Design Space with Stakeholder and Designer Prompts
We introduce the Value Sensitive Action-Reflection Model: a co-design method focus on the social context of use and values that lie with individuals, groups, and societies.
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I Feel For My Avatar: Embodied Perception in VEs
Experimental evidence of the embodied perception in the virtual environments (VEs). Users felt burdened, when their customized avatars were burdened in the virtual environments.
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Pass the iPad: Collaborative Creating and Sharing in Family Groups
Reports two studies of a tablet app to support co-creation in family groups. Relates findings to use of tablets as 'scrap computers'.
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SideWays: A Gaze Interface for Spontaneous Interaction with Situated Displays
Presents a system that uses light weight computer vision techniques for calibration-free eye tracking. The system enables hands-free spontaneous interaction with situated displays using eye gaze.
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TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking
Designed an auto-bookmark generation algorithm according to a user’s interactions in multi-scale digital map exploration and developed a web-application based on the proposed algorithm.
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AutoGami: A Low-cost Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Automated Movable Paper Craft
We presents a systematic analysis of the design space for automated movable paper craft, and developed a low-cost rapid prototyping toolkit for automated movable paper craft using the technology of selective inductive power transmission.
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Mobile Advertising: Evaluating the Effects of Animation, User and Content Relevance
Study on animation, user and content relevance on mobile ads. Results indicate personal relevance leads to better experiences, content relevance to better ad recall and blinking animation affects user experience.
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Design Research by Proxy: using Children as Researchers to gain Contextual Knowledge about User Experience.
This paper explores the use of participants as research collaborators in contextual user research. A case study was conducted to investigate if and how children can perform as research collaborators.
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SimMed: Combining Simulation and Interactive Tabletops for Medical Education
SimMed supports collaborative medical education using a life-sized virtual patient on a multitouch tabletop. We address the interplay between realism, immersion and training goals in this context.