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- ArticleApril 2007
Exploratory search and HCI: designing and evaluating interfaces to support exploratory search interaction
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2877–2880https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241100The model of search as a turn-taking dialogue between the user and an intermediary has remained unchanged for decades. However, there is growing interest within the search community in evolving this model to support search-driven information exploration ...
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Supporting non-professional users in the new media landscape
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2849–2852https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241093This workshop will discuss the implications of the new media landscape allowing non-professional users to co-produce and share media content in applications for (interactive) television, websites and mobile devices. This new media landscape represents ...
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The facial expression effect of an animated agent on the decisions taken in the negotiation game
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2795–2800https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241081This paper investigates the manner in which decision-making is influenced by the impressions given by life-like agents in negotiation situations. These impressions comprise an agent's facial expressions such as happy and sad, and the history of ...
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Porta-person: telepresence for the connected conference room
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2789–2794https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241080This paper describes a telepresence device called Porta-Person. This is the first project in a larger initiative known as the Connected Conference Room, which aims to improve the user experience for remote people connected to meetings taking place in ...
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Preliminary evidence for top-down and bottom-up processes in web search navigation
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2765–2770https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241076In current theories of web navigation, link evaluation has been treated primarily as a bottom-up process involving assessing the semantic distance between a search goal and a given link in the information source. In this paper we investigate whether ...
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Analysis of human interruptibility in the home environment
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2681–2686https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241062Many studies have explored the issues of interruption and availability in workplace environments, however, few have focused on human interruptibility in home environments. To make the initiation of online remote communication smoother, determining if it ...
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Iterative design of an audio-haptic drawing application
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2627–2632https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241053This paper presents the ongoing design and evaluation of an audio-haptic drawing program that allows visually impaired users to create and access graphical images. The application is developed in close collaboration with a user reference group of five ...
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iProCam: a lens-sharing projector-camera system for augmented reality applications
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2615–2620https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241051Projector-based augmented reality techniques are expected to become a practical display solution for hand-held devices in the near future. A new problem in the new environment is that neither a projector nor a projection surface is fixed in space . This ...
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Pointer delegation for group collaboration using telepointers
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2603–2608https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241049Pointer delegation, a new function for a telepointer, allows people to delegate the rights of their own pointers to the pointer of someone who they can trust, which helps to achieve better group collaboration through a kind of fair voting system in ...
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The effect of brand awareness on the evaluation of search engine results
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2471–2476https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241026In this paper we investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., identifying name that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. Our research is motivated by the large amount of search traffic directed to ...
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Malibu personal productivity assistant
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2375–2380https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241010The Malibu system provides peripheral access to andawareness of activities, tasks, social-bookmarkresources, and feeds to assist knowledge workers intheir activity-centric work. We describe theexperimental system, a usage scenario and somepreliminary ...
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A study of co-worker awareness in remote collaboration over a shared application
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2363–2368https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241008Following recent developments in groupware that allow teams of co-located and distributed users to work simultaneously on a shared application, differences in the relative awareness of co-located and remote users have been identified. This paper ...
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An investigation into the use of spatialised sound in locative games
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2315–2320https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241000This paper shows how spatialised sound can be used to guide users around a located gaming environment. Thus far, despite growing interest in delivering location-relevant media information to users, accurate delivery of virtual spatialised sound using ...
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Conversation votes: enabling anonymous cues
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2279–2284https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240994In this work we describe Conversation Votes, a visualization to create new backchannels in conversation and augment collocated interaction. We expand the idea of a social mirror, a reflection of interaction, to incorporate direct user feedback in the ...
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Designing tangibles for children: what designers need to know
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2243–2248https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240988New forms of tangible and spatial child computer interaction and supporting technologies can be designed to leverage the way children develop intelligence in the world. In order to design playful learning tangibles designers must understand how children ...
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Towards a quantitative analysis of audio scrolling interfaces
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2213–2218https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240982We present the results of a user study inspired by previous work in document navigation comparing rate and position control for navigating an audio timeline. Although interfaces for controlling playback speed (rate) are favored over playback position, ...
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The VVIP system: encouraging the use of public transport in Edinburgh
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2091–2096https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240955This article is concerned with the encouragement and promotion of the use of buses in Edinburgh, especially among visually impaired users and tourists / migrant workers. The report outlines the key issues these groups encounter when using buses, and ...
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EventStream: integrated transit information system
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2061–2066https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240950EventStream was designed to help out-of-town attendees of seminars or conferences use public transportation (PT) to travel to and from these meetings. Since the dominant business travel mode is the personal vehicle [2], this would help reduce habitual ...
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Building upon everyday play
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2019–2024https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240942Most of today's video game strategies are based on a static set of game controls and player actions that remain oblivious to the player's context and own creativity. Building Upon Everyday Play is the result of a collaboration of Control Freaks, a ...
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Interactive exploration of city maps with auditory torches
CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 1959–1964https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240932City maps are an important means to get an impression of the structure of cities. They represent visual abstraction of urban areas with different geographic entities, their locations, and spatial relations. However, this information is not sufficiently ...