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CHI 2016

date:2016-05-07..2016-05-12
location:San Jose, United States
series:CHI · 3 editions
editions:[CHI 2016, CHI 2017, CHI 2018]
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SkinTrack: Using the Body as an Electrical Waveguide for Continuous Finger Tracking on the SkinYang Zhang, Junhan Zhou, Gierad Laput, Chris Harrison20m
A wearable system implements a finger-worn signal emitter and a multi-electrode wristband that measure phase differences of a high‑frequency AC wave to produce…
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DigitSpace: Designing Thumb-to-Fingers Touch Interfaces for One-Handed and Eyes-Free InteractionsDa-Yuan Huang, Liwei Chan, Shuo Yang, Fan Wang, Rong-Hao Liang, De-Nian Yang, Yi-Ping Hung, Bing-Yu Chen18m
Three studies map 12 finger segments for comfort (Wilcoxon shows dominant hand and thumb anatomy matter), test discrete layouts (index 5, middle 5, ring 4…
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Finexus: Tracking Precise Motions of Multiple Fingertips Using Magnetic SensingKe-Yu Chen, Shwetak N. Patel, Sean Keller18m
A prototype mounts tiny electromagnets on fingertips and localizes them with four magnetometers sampling at 450 Hz, separating coils by frequency multiplexing…
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FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger TrackingVikram Iyer, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Desney Tan, Shyamnath Gollakota22m
Transforms a phone or smartwatch into an active sonar system that transmits inaudible 18–20 kHz OFDM pulses (48 kHz sampling, 5.92 ms spacing) and uses two…
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Participation Gestalt: Analysing Participatory Qualities of Interaction in Public SpacePeter Dalsgaard, Kim Halskov, Ole Sejer Iversen17m
Defines a five‑axis Participation Gestalt—expressivity, exposure, investment, sociality—and a visualization that maps how these qualities unfold over time…
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Multi-lifespan Design Thinking: Two Methods and a Case Study with the Rwandan DiasporaDaisy Yoo, Katie Derthick, Shaghayegh Ghassemian, Jean Hakizimana, Brian Gill, Batya Friedman18m
Develops two concrete methods — a 4.5‑yard Multi-lifespan Timeline spanning 200 years and a 20‑year co‑design spec sheet workflow — tested with 51 Rwandan…
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Participatory Design through a Learning Science LensBetsy James DiSalvo14m
A review codes 160 abstracts that mention participatory design and finds three concrete learning constructs driving successful engagement: reflection…
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Designing Movement-based Play With Young People Using Powered WheelchairsKathrin Gerling, Kieran Hicks, Michael Kalyn, Adam Evans, Conor Linehan14m
Nine young people (ages 13–22) help co-design three wheelchair-controlled games (Speed Slope, Rumble Robots, Rainbow Journey) built in Unity using an extended…
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Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Device and Cloud Service Design Decisions on the ...Chris Preist, Daniel Schien, Eli Blevis20m
Claims that digital services can account for up to 85% of a product’s footprint for some services and that 2007 infrastructure emissions were about 278 and 253…
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SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through ...Stefan Schneegass, Youssef Oualil, Andreas Bulling12m
SkullConduct uses a bone‑conduction speaker on eyewear and the device microphone to play and record a white‑noise probe, extracts MFCC features and classifies…
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Dynamic Stereoscopic 3D Parameter Adjustment for Enhanced Depth DiscriminationArun Kulshreshth, Joseph J. LaViola Jr19m
Two realtime algorithms adjust separation and convergence: one computes a low-resolution depth map, the other uses gaze from a Tobii EyeX to target the fixated…
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IJQwerty: What Difference Does One Key Change Make? Gesture Typing Keyboard Optimization Bounded ...Xiaojun Bi, Shumin Zhai23m
Optimization constrains (Qwerty1, QwertyH1, one-swap) produce IJQwerty by swapping I and J; layout generation uses a gesture-character metric and a speed…
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Compensating for Distance Compression in Audiovisual Virtual Environments Using IncongruenceDaniel J. Finnegan, Eamonn O'Neill, Michael J. Proulx15m
Built a spatial audio Unity plugin that runs with Oculus Rift and uses an inverted compression model to render audio displaced from the visual object so…
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One-Dimensional Handwriting: Inputting Letters and Words on Smart GlassesChun Yu, Ke Sun, Mingyuan Zhong, Xincheng Li, Peijun Zhao, Yuanchun Shi20m
One-Dimensional Handwriting: Inputting Letters and Words on Smart Glasses Chun Yu, Ke Sun, Mingyuan Zhong, Xincheng Li, Peijun Zhao, Yuanchun Shi CHI '16: ACM…
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Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the DigitalVygandas 'Vegas Simbelis, Pedro Ferreira, Elsa Vaara, Jarmo Laaksolahti, Kristina Höök19m
An app called Delete by Haiku turns selected old SMS into three-line poems by dragging messages into a Haiku bin and repeatedly pinching to trigger a…
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Hidden in Plain Sight: an Exploration of a Visual Language for Near-Eye Out-of-Focus Displays in ...Kris Luyten, Donald Degraen, Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, Sven Coppers, Davy Vanacken18m
A wearable frame with two RoboPeak displays and an acrylic mount maps the usable peripheral area with a 10×10 grid and tests static and animated glyphs with 18…
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Challenging the Car Norm: Opportunities for ICT to Support Sustainable Transportation PracticesHanna Hasselqvist, Mia Hesselgren, Cristian Bogdan22m
Study of three families in Stockholm replaces family cars with light electric vehicles for one year, using trip diaries, a phone app that maps trips, travel…
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The Poetics of Socio-Technical Space: Evaluating the Internet of Things Through CraftJessica Lingel22m
Semi-structured interviews and cognitive maps with 14 craftspeople analyze embodied workshops and tools and find five concrete themes: embodiment (a…
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VR-STEP: Walking-in-Place using Inertial Sensing for Hands Free Navigation in Mobile VR EnvironmentsSam Tregillus, Eelke Folmer09m
A hands-free walking-in-place system uses real-time pedometry and only smartphone inertial sensors to detect steps and map step timing to dynamic virtual…
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Designing Visual Complexity for Dual-screen MediaTimothy Neate, Michael Evans, Matt Jones17m
Empirical studies measure glance duration, glance frequency, questionnaires and video to show textual complexity dominates tablet-TV attention and graphics…
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Object-Oriented PublicsTom Jenkins, Christopher A. Le Dantec, Carl DiSalvo, Thomas Lodato, Mariam Asad19m
The paper claims computation acts as a constituent of publics rather than merely amplifying people and demonstrates this with two prototypes: object-oriented…
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Use Your Words: Designing One-time Pairing Codes to Improve User ExperienceSarah Wiseman, Gustavo Soto Mino, Anna L. Cox, Sandy J.J. Gould, Joanne Moore, Chris Needham12m
Compares three pairing formats—alphanumeric (5 chars from 56 → >500 million codes), numeric (9 digits), and three 3-letter English words (≈800 words^3 → >5…
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CalendarCast: Setup-Free, Privacy-Preserving, Localized Sharing of Appointment DataFlorian Echtler09m
CalendarCast broadcasts a compact free/busy bitmask over Bluetooth Low Energy advertisements so nearby phones aggregate availability without prior setup and…
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Pmomo: Projection Mapping on Movable 3D ObjectYi Zhou, Shuangjiu Xiao, Ning Tang, Zhiyong Wei, Xu Chen21m
System tracks movable rigid 3D objects by combining an AHR sensor and the connect depth map, registering a low-density point cloud (~300 points) to depth…
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MyPart: Personal, Portable,_Accurate, Airborne Particle CountingRundong Tian, Christine Dierk, Christopher Myers, Eric Paulos19m
Claims a working, <$50 build particle counter that distinguishes particle sizes and correlates well with a calibrated MET 1 across ~20 real-world…
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Evaluating the Influence of Targets and Hand Postures on Touch-based Behavioural BiometricsDaniel Buschek, Alexander De Luca, Florian Alt19m
Study uses 150,000 touches from 24 users across two sessions a week apart, four target types at 400 screen locations, and trains regression surface models on…
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Designing for Transient Use: A Human-in-the-loop Translation Platform for RefugeesDeana Brown, Rebecca E. Grinter22m
Rivrtran is an IVR human-in-the-loop translation platform deployed for three months with 9 Burmese families and their American mentors; messages average about…
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Enhancing Mobile Content Privacy with Proxemics Aware Notifications and ProtectionHuiyuan Zhou, Khalid Tearo, Aniruddha Waje, Elham Alghamdi, Thamara Alves, Vinicius Ferreira, Kirstie Hawkey, Derek Reilly20m
A tablet prototype uses an electromagnetic motion tracker and headband tracking to detect onlookers within about five feet, popping a glyph notification and…
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Contextualizing Intermediated Use in the Developing World: Findings from India & GhanaIshita Ghosh13m
Ethnographic work in India and Ghana shows intermediaries doing concrete, repeated practices outside the interface: mobile agents run to banks to copy deposit…
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Augmenting the Field-of-View of Head-Mounted Displays with Sparse Peripheral DisplaysRobert Xiao, Hrvoje Benko16m
Proposes a low-cost way to expand headset FOV to about 170–190° using a sparse LED ring rather than heavy optics, with two prototypes: SparseLightVR (Oculus…
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DualKey: Miniature Screen Text Entry via Finger IdentificationAakar Gupta, Ravin Balakrishnan21m
A finger-identified smartwatch keyboard doubles key size by mapping left/right letters to index versus middle taps, using an optical sensor on the finger for…
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BitDrones: Towards Using 3D Nanocopter Displays as Interactive Self-Levitating Programmable MatterAntonio Gomes, Calvin Rubens, Sean Braley, Roel Vertegaal21m
Prototype runs a Vicon-tracked 4 m^3 space with autonomous nano-quadcopters acting as levitating voxels, demonstrating three hardware types: PixelDrones with…
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Learning from Green Designers: Green Design as Discursive PracticeEarl Friedberg, Edward Lank21m
Study compares 22 designers at a major smartphone maker (10 green, 12 traditional), each interviewed three times over 16 months, using open inductive and axial…
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SnapToReality: Aligning Augmented Reality to the Real WorldBenjamin Nuernberger, Eyal Ofek, Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D. Wilson16m
SnapToReality is a Unity prototype that extracts 3D edge and planar surface constraints from a Kinect feed and an OptiTrack-tracked Lumus optical HMD, running…
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Virtual Objects as Spatial Cues in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments: How They Shape ...Jens Muller, ROMAN RÄDLE, Harald Reiterer08m
Controlled lab experiment uses a within-subjects design with 16 dyads performing a modified memory-card task (matching virtual cubes) while a see-through HMD…
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Syrian Refugees and Digital Health in Lebanon: Opportunities for Improving Antenatal HealthReem Talhouk, Sandra Mesmar, Anja Thieme, Madeline Balaam, Patrick Olivier, Chaza Akik, Hala Ghattas21m
Fieldwork with 59 Syrian refugee women across five informal tented settlements (each ~60–70 families) finds nearly universal mobile ownership, one local…
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Combining Shape-Changing Interfaces and Spatial Augmented Reality Enables Extended Object AppearanceDavid Lindlbauer, Jens Emil Grønbæk, Morten Henriksen Birk, Kim Halskov, Marc Alexa, Jörg Müller14m
Combining shape-changing mechanics with projection-based spatial augmented reality extends an object’s appearance by delegating coarse form to actuators and…
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miniStudio: Designers' Tool for Prototyping Ubicomp Space with Interactive MiniatureHan-Jong Kim, Ju-Whan Kim, Tek-Jin Nam19m
miniStudio is a Photoshop plug-in that generates paper and Lego miniatures, projects dynamic images onto them with a camera–projector system using hidden IR…
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Modeling the Impact of Depth on Pointing PerformanceIzabelle Janzen, Vasanth K. Rajendran, Kellogg S. Booth20m
Experiment measures mid-air distal pointing at 110, 220, 330 cm using active stereo tracking (Vicon/Wii remote and Eyecon cameras) and compares physical versus…
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A Real-Time IVR Platform for Community RadioKonstantinos Kazakos, Siddhartha Asthana, Madeline Balaam, Mona Duggal, Amey Holden, Limalemla Jamir, Nanda Kishore Kannuri, Saurabh Kumar, Amarendar Reddy Manindla, Subhashini Arcot Manikam, GVS Murthy, Papreen Nahar, Peter Phillimore, Shreyaswi Sathyanath, Pushpendra Singh, Meenu Singh, Peter Wright, Deepika Yadav, Patrick Olivier21m
A real-time IVR platform called Sehat ki Vaani connects an Android host app to low-end phones via a FreeSWITCH backend, enabling live community radio on…
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Investigating Text Legibility on Non-Rectangular DisplaysMarcos Serrano, Anne Roudaut, Pourang Irani21m
Paper reports a multi-part empirical investigation using focus groups to collect real-world non-rectangular shapes, a three-axis mapping framework, and 10…
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GauntLev: A Wearable to Manipulate Free-floating ObjectsAsier Marzo13m
A wearable ultrasonic levitation system called GauntLev mounts arrays on the hand to create standing waves and twin traps, enabling capture, movement…
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ActiVibe: Design and Evaluation of Vibrations for Progress MonitoringJessica R. Cauchard, Janette L. Cheng, Thomas Pietrzak, James A. Landay20m
A wristwatch prototype uses a single-actuator vibrotactile language to encode progress from 1–10 with short and long pulses inspired by Roman-numeral inspired…
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Motion Guidance Sleeve: Guiding the Forearm Rotation through External Artificial MusclesChia-Yu Chen, Yen-Yu Chen, Yi-Ju Chung, Neng-Hao Yu15m
A wearable sleeve uses stepper motors pulling fishing lines and elastic bands to simulate muscles; eight artificial muscles cross the inner and outer forearm…
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HapTurk: Crowdsourcing Affective Ratings of Vibrotactile IconsOliver S. Schneider, Hasti Seifi, Salma Kashani, Matthew Chun, Karon E. MacLean19m
Project translates 10 high‑fidelity C2 tactor vibrations via VibViz into two proxy modalities—waveform and designed visualizations—and into low‑fidelity…
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A Live, Multiple-Representation Probabilistic Programming Environment for NovicesMaria I. Gorinova, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Don Syme12m
A live IDE for probabilistic programming built around Infer.NET and F# shows code, a graphical model view and probability-distribution visualizations that…
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Using and Exploring Hierarchical Data in SpreadsheetsKerry Shih-Ping Chang, Brad A. Myers19m
A spreadsheet prototype called Gneiss lets users drag JSON fields into columns and view data as nested tables that reshape dynamically when columns move…
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Airways: Optimization-Based Planning of Quadrotor Trajectories according to High-Level User GoalsChristoph Gebhardt, Benjamin Hepp, Tobias Nägeli, Stefan Stev_i_, Otmar Hilliges19m
An interactive design tool turns sketched keyframes into physically feasible quadrotor flights by discretizing time, using a 4-DOF linear mass-point model and…
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SelPh: Progressive Learning and Support of Manual Photo Color EnhancementYuki Koyama, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi20m
SelPh is a working prototype that progressively learns a user’s manual color edits and applies five support functions including VisOpt Slider visualization…
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High-Low Split: Divergent Cognitive Construal Levels Triggered by Digital and Non-digital PlatformsGeoff Kaufman, Mary Flanagan12m
Four randomized experiments compare digital (iPad, laptop) versus non-digital (paper) delivery while holding font, distance and content constant and find a…
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Framework for Electroencephalography-based Evaluation of User ExperienceJérémy Frey, Maxime Daniel, Julien Castet, Martin Hachet, Fabien Lotte21m
A software-and-EEG pipeline extracts spectral, ERP and spatial features to estimate workload, attention and error recognition; calibration uses an n-back task…
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Towards Providing On-Demand Expert Support for Software DevelopersYan Chen, Steve Oney, Walter S. Lasecki17m
Two lab studies define concrete requirements for on‑demand expert help: a five‑participant study finds four of five asked for task execution beyond Q&A and 82%…
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Tales of Software Updates: The process of updating softwareKami Vaniea, Yasmeen Rashidi23m
Survey of 307 update stories maps users’ behavior onto six stages: awareness, deciding, preparation, installation, troubleshooting, and post-state, with…
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"A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies: ""When I first saw a breast pump ...Catherine D'Ignazio, Alexis Hope, Becky Michelson, Robyn Churchill, Ethan Zuckerman21m
Crowdsourcing yields 1,136 ideas about the breastpump, analyzed with a 30+ code grounded theory codebook that surfaces concrete failures: bulky, tethered…
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Characterizing How Interface Complexity Affects Children's Touchscreen InteractionsJulia Woodward, Alex Shaw, Annie Luc, Brittany Craig, Juthika Das, Phillip Hall, Jr., Akshay Holla, Danielle Sikich, Quincy Brown, Lisa Anthony, Germaine Irwin17m
Study collects touch and gesture data from 30 adults and 30 children and runs 16,000 touch events and 14,400 gestures through the PR recognizer from Vatavu et…
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Breaking Down While Building Up: Design and Decline in Emerging InfrastructuresStephanie B. Steinhardt19m
Ethnographic work around the Ocean Observatories Initiative shows a partly built, just-launched distributed ocean sensor network (gliders, buoys, floor…
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SwiVRChair: A Motorized Swivel Chair to Nudge Users' Orientation for 360 Degree Storytelling in ...Jan Gugenheimer, Dennis Wolf, Gabriel Haas, Sebastian Krebs, Enrico Rukzio09m
A swivel chair is modified with a 24V DC motor, gearbox, toothed belt, hall sensor and an electromagnetic clutch controlled by an Arduino to motorize rotation…
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Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with ...Ken Nakagaki, Luke Vink, Jared Counts, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii21m
A proof-of-concept system uses a pin-based shape display plus a physics emulator (virtual spring grid and shallow-water equations) to render deformable solids…
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HaptoClone (Haptic-Optical Clone) for Mutual Tele-Environment by Real-time 3D Image Transfer ...Yasutoshi Makino, Yoshikazu Furuyama, Seki Inoue, Hiroyuki Shinoda19m
HaptoClone optically copies adjacent workspaces and gives midair force feedback so users touch floating clones of hands and objects in a shared coordinate…
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Logistics as Care and Control: An Investigation into the UNICEF Supply DivisionMargaret Jack, Steven J. Jackson17m
Argues that UNICEF Supply’s logistics function operates simultaneously as logistics as care and control, marrying humanitarian intent with tight oversight…
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The Ins and Outs of HCI for DevelopmentNicola Dell, Neha Kumar20m
A systematic review of 259 papers from 2009–2014 maps venues (ICTD largest, CHI second, Ubicomp/UIST almost absent), locations (108 India, 27 South Africa, 48…
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Indirect 2D Touch Panning: How Does It Affect Spatial Memory and Navigation Performance?Henri Palleis, Heinrich Hussmann08m
A controlled study with 18 participants uses a 23 inch horizontal display, a 12×9 grid with 18 items and search sequences of eight items across eight blocks to…
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Data, Design and Civics: An Exploratory Study of Civic TechKirsten Boehner, Carl DiSalvo21m
Qualitative interviews with 13 civic leaders from 10 Atlanta organizations map three practical roles—volunteer voice, connector voice, provider voice—and four…
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Re-Making Places: HCI, 'Community Building' and ChangeClara Crivellaro, Alex Taylor, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Bettina Nissen, Peter Wright20m
An urban regeneration site deploys four digital travelling suitcases — physical boxes with prompt cards, a cube for choosing recipients, and a GSM phone + IVR…
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Stabilized Annotations for Mobile Remote AssistanceOmid Fakourfar, Kevin Ta, Richard Tang, Scott Bateman, Anthony Tang17m
Compares anchored stabilized annotations (AR targets) with non‑stabilized overlays across tablets and head‑mounted displays, running two user studies (16 pairs…
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Sketching Shape-changing Interfaces: Exploring Vocabulary, Metaphors Use, and AffordancesMajken K. Rasmussen, Giovanni M. Troiano, Marianne G. Petersen, Jakob Grue Simonsen, Kasper Hornbæk20m
Study recruits 21 designers from 264 invitees and asks each to sketch a shape-changing radio or mobile phone for one hour, producing drawings, photos and…
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Design(ing) ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets and Reflexivity in Design ...Seyram Avle, Silvia Lindtner18m
Ethnographic work documents 3 years in Accra and 5 years in Shenzhen using participant observation, interviews and media analysis to argue design is tightly…
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Skeletons and Silhouettes: Comparing User Representations at a Gesture-based Large DisplayChristopher Ackad, Martin Tomitsch, Judy Kay12m
A night-facing large projected display behind glass uses a Connect depth sensor to recognize swipe and arm-up gestures; deployed 56 days, logging 190 sessions…
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On Looking at the Vagina through LabellaTeresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Gavin Wood, Dean Saraf, Madeline Balaam22m
Labella is a tangible prototype combining a pair of underwear with a mobile phone app that recognizes a printed crotch marker and overlays anatomy, pelvic…
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Annexing Reality: Enabling Opportunistic Use of Everyday Objects as Tangible Proxies in ...Anuruddha Hettiarachchi, Daniel Wigdor21m
Annexing Reality scans the room with an AR headset and depth sensor, extracts 3D primitives, and uses developer-specified haptic models (primitives…
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EyeSwipe: Dwell-free Text Entry Using Gaze PathsAndrew Kurauchi, Wenxin Feng, Ajjen Joshi, Carlos Morimoto, Margrit Betke10m
EyeSwipe is a gaze-typing keyboard that removes dwell delays by requiring explicit reverse crossing on the first and last letters and glancing near middle…
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Do That, There: An Interaction Technique for Addressing In-Air Gesture SystemsEuan Freeman, Stephen A. Brewster, Vuokko Lantz20m
"Do That, There" is an interaction technique that uses LED light, audio beeps and wrist vibration to show there (where sensors see you) and animated rhythmic…
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Everyday food science as a design space for community literacy and habitual sustainable practiceStacey Kuznetsov, Christina J. Santana, Elenore Long19m
Fieldwork with 12 in-situ interviews and two studio workshops with 14 practitioners shows at‑home preserving, fermenting, brewing, pickling and foraging…
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To Sign Up, or not to Sign Up? Maximizing Citizen Science Contribution Rates through Optional ...Caroline Jay, Robert Dunne, David Gelsthorpe, Markel Vigo10m
Controlled A/B testing of the Reading's Nature's Library crowdsourcing app with Manchester Museum compares mandatory registration, optional registration, and…
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Parallel Eyes: Exploring Human Capability and Behaviors with Paralleled First Person View SharingShunichi Kasahara, Mitsuhito Ando, Kiyoshi Suganuma, Jun Rekimoto23m
A smartphone-based head-mounted system streams four live first-person videos between participants and records eye gaze; latency stays under 200 ms and eye…
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Intelligent Agents and Networked Buttons Improve Free-Improvised Ensemble Music-Making on ...Charles Martin, Henry Gardner, Ben Swift, Michael Martin20m
Two controlled studies test a networked touchscreen system (the phase rings app) plus a server-side ensemble director agent across 16 participants (four…
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An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in DesignCasey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison, Amy S. Bruckman18m
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a community-built fanfiction archive launched in 2008 that grows to hundreds of thousands of accounts (uploader notes ~750,000…
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Trigger-Action Programming in the Wild: An Analysis of 200,000 IFTTT RecipesBlase Ur, Melwyn Pak Yong Ho, Stephen Brawner, Jiyun Lee, Sarah Mennicken, Noah Picard, Diane Schulze, Michael L. Littman13m
Collected and released a crawl of 224,590 public recipes (sourced with Selenium with ChromeDriver), showing IFTTT triples from 67,000 in 2013 to 224,000 in…
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Haptic Retargeting: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality ExperiencesMahdi Azmandian, Mark Hancock, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, Andrew D. Wilson19m
Repurposes a single physical prop to serve many virtual objects by warping visuals and body alignment; system uses an Oculus HMD, a ceiling camera…
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Data and the CityDonald Mcmillan, Arvid Engström, Airi Lampinen, Barry Brown18m
Study based on 20 interviews in four cities (500k–1M residents) shows concrete friction: a parks database is withheld to protect municipal gardening contracts…
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Citizens for Science and Science for Citizens: The View from Participatory DesignDanial Qaurooni, Ali Ghazinejad, Inna Kouper, Hamid R. Ekbia09m
Paper codes 89 projects and finds a 4:1 skew toward citizen-as-labor projects versus participatory knowledge projects. Examples include Cropland Capture, which…
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Head Mounted Projection Display & Visual Attention: Visual attentional processing of head ...Ça_lar Genç, Shoaib Soomro, Yalçın Duyan, Selim Ölçer, Fuat Balcı, Hakan Ürey, O_uzhan Özcan13m
A user study ( N=18 ) evaluates a head‑mounted projection display built from a Raspberry Pi + Pico projector under three conditions: tripod control, wearing…
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Smart Touch: Improving Touch Accuracy for People with Motor Impairments with Template MatchingMartez E. Mott, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock14m
Empirical study of 10 participants on a Microsoft PixelSense tabletop records multi-point contacts (some users produce 5–8 concurrent touches and land/lift…
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Dexmo: An Inexpensive and Lightweight Mechanical Exoskeleton for Motion Capture and Force ...Xiaochi Gu, Yifei Zhang, Weize Sun, Yuanzhe Bian, Dao Zhou, Per Ola Kristensson10m
Mechanical exoskeleton glove uses rotational sensors, ratchet wheels and a stopping slider to lock joints in place and deliver passive force feedback to a VR…
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Detecting Swipe Errors on Touchscreens using Grip ModulationMohammad Faizuddin Mohd Noor, Simon Rogers, John Williamson19m
Prototype phone with 20 back-of-device capacitive sensors plus the built-in accelerometer and a Random Forest classifier detects unintentional swipes from…
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M.Gesture: An Acceleration-Based Gesture Authoring System on Multiple Handheld and Wearable DevicesJu-Whan Kim, Han-Jong Kim, Tek-Jin Nam18m
M.Gesture is a smartphone/watch authoring app that visualizes accelerometer streams with a mass-spring metaphor and lets users define gestures by demonstration…
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You Put What, Where? Hobbyist Use of Insertable DevicesKayla J. Heffernan, Frank Vetere, Shanton Chang20m
Seventeen in-depth interviews reveal 47 current insertable devices (RFID/NFC chips and tiny magnets) used for authentication, temperature sensing, audio via…
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Using Runtime Traces to Improve Documentation and Unit Test Authoring for Dynamic LanguagesJan-Peter Krämer, Joel Brandt, Jan Borchers16m
Vesta is a Brackets plugin that captures runtime traces from manual executions and auto-populates type info and starter text into inline docs while offering…
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Proactive Sensing for Improving Hand Pose EstimationDun-Yu Hsiao, Min Sun, Christy Ballweber, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popovi_10m
Proactive sensing continually repositions a camera to raise hand-pose confidence by choosing rotations that reduce occlusion. A low-cost rig built from Leap…
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EMPress: Practical Hand Gesture Classification with Wrist-Mounted EMG and Pressure SensingJess McIntosh, Charlie McNeill, Mike Fraser, Frederic Kerber, Markus Löchtefeld, Antonio Krüger17m
Wrist-mounted system combines four pairs of EMG electrodes and four pressure sensors (FSRs), runs an SVM with RBF kernel, and is evaluated with 12 participants…
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HCI and Intimate Care as an Agenda for Change in Women’s HealthTeresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Madeline Balaam18m
Argues that HCI largely ignores non-maternal women’s health and offers an urinary incontinence case study from eight months of observation in an NHS…
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Reflections on Deploying Distributed Consultation Technologies with Community OrganisationsIan G. Johnson, John Vines, Nick Taylor, Edward Jenkins, Justin Marshall20m
Research team deploys three Viewpoint devices (two in supermarkets, one in a library) and later four Viewpoint devices with a touchscreen map and live heat map…
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Gaze Augmentation in Egocentric Video Improves Awareness of IntentionDeepak Akkil, Poika Isokoski17m
Egocentric video with a superimposed gaze point improves people’s ability to predict a driver’s turn: observers view 15 driving clips recorded with a city car…
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Hammer Time! A Low-Cost, High Precision, High Accuracy Tool to Measure the Latency of ...Jonathan Deber, Bruno De Araujo, Ricardo Jota, Clifton Forlines, Darren Leigh, Steven Sanders, Daniel Wigdor20m
A low-cost automated device called the Latency Hammer electrically simulates a human capacitive touch using a brass contact, heat-sink ground, a mechanical…
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Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues with GenderMag: A Field InvestigationMargaret Burnett, Anicia Peters, Charles G. Hill, Noha Elarief20m
A field study tests the GenderMag inspection method with four software teams across three U.S. organizations using four personas (notably the Abby persona) and…
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Partially-indirect Bimanual Input with Gaze, Pen, and Touch for Pan, Zoom, and Ink InteractionKen Pfeuffer, Jason Alexander, Hans Gellersen21m
A system combines direct pen input with indirect touch that redirects pinch gestures to either the pen or the gaze, using an iClicker eye tracker and two demo…
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WatchWriter: Tap and Gesture Typing on a Smartwatch Miniature Keyboard with Statistical DecodingMitchell Gordon, Tom Ouyang, Shumin Zhai20m
A smartwatch keyboard called WatchWriter runs the Google keyboard statistical decoder locally (160,000-word lexicon) and supports both one-letter tap and…
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Foraging among an Overabundance of Similar VariantsSruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Charles G. Hill, Anita Sarma, David Piorkowski, Margaret Burnett18m
Study of eight novice programmers examines reuse across many near-duplicate program copies and refines Information Foraging Theory by adding a variation…
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Storeoboard: Sketching Stereoscopic StoryboardsRorik Henrikson, Bruno De Araujo, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh, Ravin Balakrishnan11m
Storeoboard is a tablet sketching tool that actually draws in stereo by letting artists paint on a stack of transparent sheets controlled with a depth slider…
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Motion Amplifiers: Sketching Dynamic Illustrations Using the Principles of 2D AnimationRubaiat Habib Kazi, Tovi Grossman, Nobuyuki Umetani, George Fitzmaurice15m
A sketching application called Squid exposes a toolbox of motion amplifiers that implement concrete 2D animation principles (anticipation, staging, drag, slow…
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A Comparison of Cooperative and Competitive Visualizations for Co-located CollaborationSarah Tausch, Stephanie Ta, Heinrich Hussmann11m
A repeated-measures study with 12 groups runs four 8‑minute brainstorming sessions each under four conditions: per‑person (competitive), per‑group…
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Faster Command Selection on Touchscreen WatchesBen Lafreniere, Carl Gutwin, Andy Cockburn, Tovi Grossman17m
Two techniques are implemented for tiny watch screens: WristTap uses multitouch to select in a single action, TwoTap uses two rapid sequential taps…
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PathSync: Multi-User Gestural Interaction with Touchless Rhythmic Path MimicryMarcus Carter, Eduardo Velloso, John Downs, Abigail Sellen, Kenton P. O'Hara, Frank Vetere20m
PathSync is a mid-air selection technique that matches a user’s hand motion to on-screen target motion using axis-rotated correlation, double thresholds and…
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The Performance and Preference of Different Fingers and Chords for Pointing, Dragging, and ...Alix Goguey, Mathieu Nancel, Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel17m
Empirical evaluation compares 10 fingers and 7 two‑finger chords across pointing, dragging, rotation and scaling on a Nexus 10, with 48 participants, five…
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LondonTube: Overcoming Hidden Dependencies in Cloud-Mobile-Web ProgrammingChristopher Scaffidi, Andrew Dove, Tahmid Nabi20m
A visual language called LondonTube compiles a single structured-dataflow diagram into JavaScript runtimes for Android, cloud, and browser, with nodes for…
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The Effect of Displaying System Confidence Information on the Usage of Autonomous Systems for ...Jhim Kiel M. Verame, Enrico Costanza, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn18m
A lab study with 60 participants tests a Wizard-of-Oz OCR agent against a manual grammar task under a 30-minute/30-task limit and a £10 payout cap. The UI…
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HCI Research as Problem-SolvingAntti Oulasvirta, Kasper Hornbæk18m
Frames HCI as a problem-solving enterprise using Larry Laudan’s notion of problem–solution pairs, arguing papers should be judged by five concrete criteria…
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GaussMarbles: Spherical Magnetic Tangibles for Interacting with Portable Physical ConstraintsHan-Chih Kuo, Rong-Hao Liang, Long-Fei Lin, Bing-Yu Chen09m
GaussMarbles presents a system of eight 3D-printed magnetic spheres using a magnetic polyhedron core and an analog Hall-sensor grid mounted behind a tablet to…
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Designing a Willing-to-Use-in-Public Hand Gestural Interaction Technique for Smart GlassesYi-Ta Hsieh, Antti Jylhä, Valeria Orso, Luciano Gamberini, Giulio Jacucci20m
Derives design principles and builds a sensor-equipped haptic glove (orientation IMU, flex sensors, vibrotactile actuators, Bluetooth) that maps hand…
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Pushing the Limits of Design Fiction: The Case For Fictional Research PapersJoseph Lindley, Paul Coulton19m
A full fictional paper argues that writing entire plausible research reports can reveal societal and ethical implications that short imaginary abstracts miss…
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Tactile Presentation to the Back of a Smartphone with Simultaneous Screen OperationSugarragchaa Khurelbaatar, Yuriko Nakai, Ryuta Okazaki, Vibol Yem, Hiroyuki Kajimoto10m
A prototype smartphone-mounted electro-tactile display with 61 electrodes presents mirror-image tactile maps to a single finger on the device back while the…
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Haptic Edge Display for Mobile Tactile InteractionSungjune Jang, Lawrence H Kim, Kesler Tanner, Hiroshi Ishii, Sean Follmer16m
A side-mounted linear array of tactile pixels uses Piezo actuators in two prototypes (initial 24-servo then a 40-pin 2-row design with 2.5mm pitch, 1.6mm pin…
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The Evolution of Engagements and Social Bonds During Child-Parent Co-designJason C. Yip, Tamara Clegg, June Ahn, Judith Odili Uchidiuno, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Austin Beck, Daniel Pauw, Kelly Mills17m
The study documents 14 families across nine sessions over ten months and finds parents’ engagement patterns shift much more slowly than children’s — children…
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Direct Manipulation in Tactile DisplaysAakar Gupta, Thomas Pietrzak, Nicolas Roussel, Ravin Balakrishnan15m
Built a wristband proof-of-concept Direct Manipulation-enabled Tactile display with four vibration motors that synthesizes 360 tactile pixels using phantom…
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WearWrite: Crowd-Assisted Writing from SmartwatchesMichael Nebeling, Alexandra To, Anhong Guo, Adrian A. de Freitas, Jaime Teevan, Steven P. Dow, Jeffrey P. Bigham20m
WearWrite is a prototype that lets a smartwatch user dictate writing tasks and answer questions while a distributed crowd edits a Google Doc via a Dynamic Task…
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Emergeables: Deformable Displays for Continuous Eyes-Free Mobile InteractionSimon Robinson, Céline Coutrix, Jennifer Pearson, Juan Rosso, Matheus Fernandes Torquato, Laurence Nigay, Matt Jones20m
Prototype hardware: a handheld 4x7 grid with 28 sensor rods (15 mm each) built from CD-drive micro-steppers, navigation switches and eight Arduinos; a separate…
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Experimental Systems in Research through DesignPeter Dalsgaard10m
Argues that Rheinberger’s notion of experimental systems maps onto Research through Design by treating design projects as units that both generate and embody…
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Interface Design Optimization as a Multi-Armed Bandit ProblemJ. Derek Lomas, Jodi L. Forlizzi, Nikhil Poonwala, Nirmal Patel, Sharan Shodhan, Kishan Patel, Kenneth Koedinger, Emma Brunskill22m
Researchers apply UCB1 and a variant of upper confidence bounds to a live online math game with thousands of players and run meta-experiments (~10,000…
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Crossed Wires: Investigating the Problems of End-User Developers in a Physical Computing TaskTracey Booth, Simone Stumpf, Jon Bird, Sara Jones21m
Study observes 20 participants using an Arduino board, breadboard, temperature sensor, three LEDs and the Arduino IDE/serial monitor to build a “loveometer” in…
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Supporting Transitions to Expertise in Hidden ToolbarsKatherine Schramm, Carl Gutwin, Andy Cockburn18m
Four hidden-toolbar designs (ButtonOpen, Timeout, DoubleTap, Swipe) are implemented and tested with 24 participants performing 12 blocks of 10 selections…
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Social Inequality and HCI: The View from Political EconomyBonnie Nardi10m
Shows data that wages flat since 2008 while Dow and profits keep rising, arguing growing white space between profit and wage lines drives political…
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“It’s More of a Mindset Than a Method”: UX Practitioners’ Conception of Design MethodsColin M. Gray19m
Thirteen interviews across consultancies, agencies and companies show UX practice treats methods as adaptable toolkits rather than fixed recipes: practitioners…
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How We Type: Movement Strategies and Performance in Everyday TypingAnna Maria Feit, Daryl Weir, Antti Oulasvirta24m
Motion capture at 420 fps and eye-tracking glasses record 30 everyday typists (13 trained, 17 self‑taught) and produce a public dataset with 52 markers and…
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GaussRFID: Reinventing Physical Toys Using Magnetic RFID Development KitsRong-Hao Liang, Han-Chih Kuo, Bing-Yu Chen11m
A hybrid RFID plus magnetic-field system combines a magnetic unit with an RFID tag to track ID, 3D position and partial orientation with about 5 mm precision…
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Serendipity: Finger Gesture Recognition using an Off-the-Shelf SmartwatchHongyi Wen, Julian Ramos Rojas, Anind K. Dey14m
System uses only accelerometer and gyroscope on an off-the-shelf Samsung Gear watch sampled at 50 Hz with 1 s sliding windows, FFT (keep lower 10 bands)…
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Fingers of a Hand Oscillate Together: Phase Syncronisation of Tremor in Hover Touch SensingJohn Williamson12m
Claim: 3D capacitive sensors detect physiological tremor (6–12 Hz) from hovering fingers and a signal-processing pipeline using a Hilbert transform and phase…
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An Evaluation of Shape Changes for Conveying EmotionsPaul Strohmeier, Juan Pablo Carrascal, Bernard Cheng, Margaret Meban, Roel Vertegaal18m
Two studies use a neoprene 2D flexible surface with 11 bend sensors and human-recorded deformations to map shapes to emotions; 20 creators produce common…
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Object-Oriented DrawingHaijun Xia, Bruno De Araujo, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor22m
Replaces WIMP form widgets with Attribute Objects — attributes become movable, clonable, linkable UI objects that users drag onto shapes; implemented as a…
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Stereotypes and Politics: Reflections on PersonasNicola Marsden, Maren Haag18m
A qualitative interview study with seven experts in academia and corporate IT examines how personas are used and defended; analysis yields seven themes…
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The Effect of Richer Visualizations on Code ComprehensionDimitar Asenov, Otmar Hilliges, Peter Müller11m
Compared standard syntax highlighting to two enriched presentations: medium: outlines and alternating background colors and high: icons replacing keywords plus…
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TouchTokens: Guiding Touch Patterns with Passive TokensRafael Morales González, Caroline Appert, Gilles Bailly, Emmanuel Pietriga20m
TouchTokens uses passive 3D‑printed tokens placed on a multitouch surface to force consistent finger layouts, a template‑matching recognizer compares sorted…
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Finger-Aware ShortcutsJingjie Zheng, Daniel Vogel14m
Detects which hand, which finger and open/closed posture using a laptop webcam pointed at a mirrored keyboard (green cover for background subtraction) and a…
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Why Design Method Development is not Always Carried Out as User-Centered DesignGary Dickson, Erik Stolterman09m
Researchers run two years of observations and interviews using snowball sampling and collect responses from 11 subjects (interviews, surveys, follow ups) and…
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Investigating Effects of Post-Selection Feedback for Acquiring Ultra-Small Targets on TouchscreenChun Yu, Hongyi Wen, Wei Xiong, Xiaojun Bi, Yuanchun Shi19m
Three staged experiments on smartphones and a smartwatch test a ripple post-selection visualization that shows the finger’s contact point after lift for 2–4 mm…
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Egocentric Analysis of Dynamic Networks with EgoLinesJian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Fanny Chevalier, Yanhong Wu, Azam Khan20m
An interactive visualization called EgoLines maps each co-author as a line across time using a subway-map metaphor, shows collaborations as dots, gaps as…
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Why That Nao? How Humans Adapt to a Conversational Humanoid Robot in Taking Turns-at-TalkHannah R.M. Pelikan, Mathias Broth22m
Study records 13 participants playing charades with a Nao robot using video and multimodal conversation analysis and finds concrete behaviors: people rapidly…
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Designing Speculative CivicsCarl DiSalvo, Tom Jenkins, Thomas Lodato20m
Design research produces three concrete prototypes and claims: a set of hundreds of information icons that model how digital property shifts during divorce to…
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The Flat Finger: Exploring Area Touches on SmartwatchesIan Oakley, Carina Lindahl, Khanh Le, DoYoung Lee, MD. Rasel Islam23m
A custom 33 mm square sensor with a 7x7 capacitive grid samples at 40 Hz and records proportional capacitance; the study evaluates 31 area touches with 20…
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Anchored Customization: Anchoring Settings to the Application Interface to Afford CustomizationAntoine Ponsard, Joanna McGrenere20m
Proposal anchors app settings to their related UI elements and ships a JavaScript Customization Layer prototype on top of Wunderlist that shows which controls…
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Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for SmartwatchesShaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Courtney Lutton, Zichun Xu, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, Jaime Ruiz19m
Elicitation with 25 participants across 31 smartwatch tasks collects 775 gestures and yields a clear consensus gesture set that maps many commands to simple…
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ThoughtCloud: Exploring the Role of Feedback Technologies in Care OrganisationsAndy Dow, John Vines, Rob Comber, Rob Wilson18m
A lightweight Android tablet app called ThoughtCloud collects ratings and optional audio or video, sends uploads to a secure server, and was deployed with two…
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Anti-Solutionist Strategies: Seriously Silly Design FictionMark Blythe, Kristina Andersen, Rachel Clarke, Peter Wright20m
Argues that quick tech fixes and glossy mockup ads reproduce solutionism traced to modernist city planning and that images often foreclose critique. Runs lo-fi…
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Machine Learning of Personal Gesture Variation in Music ConductingAlvaro Sarasua, Baptiste Caramiaux, Atau Tanaka11m
A system learns idiosyncratic gesture variations to drive articulation in music conducting using a Gaussian Mixture Model that maps user-provided examples…
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ResViz: Politics and Design Issues in Visualizing Academic MetricsChris Elsden, Sebastian Mellor, Patrick Olivier, Pete Wheldon, David Kirk, Rob Comber22m
A university visualization called ResViz is built and deployed as a nightly-updated web tool that maps externally funded projects with an interactive cord…
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Heterogeneity in Customization of Recommender Systems By Users with Homogenous PreferencesJacob Solomon12m
Recommender systems with user tuning show that people who are assigned the same preferences still configure algorithms very differently: studies run on…
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Doppio: A Reconfigurable Dual-Face Smartwatch for Tangible InteractionTeddy Seyed, Xing-Dong Yang, Daniel Vogel19m
A reconfigurable dual‑face smartwatch prototype is built (paper and instrumented versions) using magnets and capacitive sensing with Android watches, Arduino…
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Chronicler: Interactive Exploration of Source Code HistoryMoritz Wittenhagen, Christian Cherek, Jan Borchers20m
Proposes a history graph built from simplified syntax trees and a one-dimensional Tree Flow visualization that links to a code view; prototypes combine this…
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Body Integrated Programmable Joints InterfaceSang-won Leigh, Pattie Maes09m
A wearable, reconfigurable joint array built from 11 servomotors straps onto the forearm and folds into a wristband disengage state, driven by muscle EMG…
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Data-driven Personas: Constructing Archetypal Users with Clickstreams and User TelemetryXiang Zhang, Hans-Frederick Brown, Anil Shankar19m
Presents a reproducible pipeline that turns telemetry into five personas by aggregating 3.5 million clicks from 2,400 users into ~39,000 clickstreams…
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A Model Relating Pupil Diameter to Mental Workload and Lighting ConditionsBastian Pfleging, Drea K. Fekety, Albrecht Schmidt, Andrew L. Kun19m
Proof-of-concept model maps pupil diameter to mental workload across six controlled lighting levels using an SMI Red 250 at 120 Hz and an auditory n-back…
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Evaluating the Paper-to-Screen Translation of Participant-Aided Sociograms with High-Risk ...Bernie Hogan, Joshua R. Melville, Gregory Lee Phillips II, Patrick Janulis, Noshir Contractor, Brian S. Mustanski, Michelle Birkett18m
A digital tool called netCanvas translates participant-aided sociograms into HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript with a Node.js server, Neo4j storage and Leaflet maps and…
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Social Media Image Analysis for Public HealthVenkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Abdulrahman Alfayad, Ingmar Weber09m
200,000 Instagram food pictures from the 100 most populous counties form the dataset and a supervised regression uses county demographics plus user-provided…
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“Tell It Like It Really Is”: A Case of Online Content Creation and Sharing Among Older Adult ...Robin Brewer, Anne Marie Piper21m
Case study of N=20 older bloggers (average age 73) finds blogging meets four concrete needs: identity work, values-driven self‑expression, routine…
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Building a Personalized, Auto-Calibrating Eye Tracker from User InteractionsMichael Xuelin Huang, Tiffany C.K. Kwok, Grace Ngai, Stephen C.F. Chan, Hong Va Leong20m
A webcam-based system called Personalized, Auto-Calibrating Eye Tracker (PACE) extracts geometric eye/facial features and uses a two-layer validation…
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Embodied SketchingElena Márquez Segura, Laia Turmo Vidal, Asreen Rostami, Annika Waern16m
Argues that bringing bodily experience into early ideation yields richer movement-based games and shows how via three workshops: a 30-minute bodystorming using…
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Gaze-Contingent Manipulation of Color PerceptionMichael Mauderer, David R. Flatla, Miguel A. Nacenta14m
Two experiments test gaze-driven color changes: a color-matching task shows gaze-contingent simultaneous contrast produces shifts similar to static surrounds…
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Pointing while Looking Elsewhere: Designing for Varying Degrees of Visual Guidance during Manual ...Baris Serim, Giulio Jacucci18m
Eye tracking plus a large touch display distinguishes touches made with or without visual guidance and treats uncertain touches with area cursor scaling and…
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Spotlights: Attention-Optimized Highlights for Skim ReadingByungjoo Lee, Olli Savisaari, Antti Oulasvirta20m
Claims an attention-guided overlay called Spotlights that replaces continuous scrolling above 2 pages/s with stacked transparent, static excerpts and a…
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Mirror Mirror: An On-Body T-shirt Design SystemDaniel Saakes, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Seung-Tak Noh, Gyeol Han, Woontack Woo08m
A mirror-based system projects reversed graphics onto bodies and tracks up to four people in 3D, using UV texture mapping to place designs and supporting…
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“With most of it being pictures now, I rarely use it”: Understanding Twitter’s Evolving ...Meredith Ringel Morris, Annuska Zolyomi, Catherine Yao, Sina Bahram, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Shaun K. Kane22m
Surveying 132 blind Twitter users (116 public) and 116 matched controls plus the Twitter firehose, the study shows rising image prevalence: about 25% of tweets…
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SymmetriSense: Enabling Near-Surface Interactivity on Glossy Surfaces using a Single Commodity ...Chungkuk Yoo, Inseok Hwang, Eric Rozner, Yu Gu, Robert F. Dickerson19m
SymmetriSense localizes a fingertip in 3D above glossy surfaces using only a single commodity smartphone (Galaxy S5) and mirror reflection geometry, not extra…
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Off-Limits: Interacting Beyond the Boundaries of Large DisplaysAnders Markussen, Sebastian Boring, Mikkel R. Jakobsen, Kasper Hornbæk21m
Extends pointing off the screen and shows it works: three studies compare touch, midair on-screen pointing, and an initial off-screen extrapolation with 12…
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Glowworms and Fireflies: Ambient Light on Large Interactive SurfacesFlorian Perteneder, Eva-Maria Beatrix Grossauer, Joanne Leong, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Michael Haller12m
A large interactive whiteboard gets a peripheral ambient-light strip and two controlled experiments test notifications (position and task) and off-screen cues…
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Can Eye Help You?: Effects of Visualizing Eye Fixations on Remote Collaboration Scenarios for ...Keita Higuch, Ryo Yonetani, Yoichi Sato15m
A system maps a remote collaborator’s eye fixations from a display-mounted tracker onto a worker’s workspace using projector and optical see-through HMD…
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Personalized Compass: A Compact Visualization for Direction and LocationDaniel Miau, Steven Feiner17m
Compact prototype combines a multi-needle compass with an abstract overview map to show where X relative to known landmarks, implemented as a small widget that…
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BeUpright: Posture Correction Using Relational Norm InterventionJaemyung Shin, Bumsoo Kang, Taiwoo Park, Jina Huh, Jinhan Kim, Junehwa Song16m
BeUpright uses a shirt-mounted TI accelerometer with magnets, calibrates a personal upright, flags tilt >6° for 20s then vibrates and gives 10s to correct…
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Eye-Trace: Segmentation of Volumetric Microscopy Images with EyegazeThomas Templier, Kenan Bektas, Richard H.R. Hahnloser16m
System records continuous gaze-input skeleton tracing while users “fly” through 3D electron-microscopy stacks using a gamepad for pan/zoom and a chin rest for…
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FlexCase: Enhancing Mobile Interaction with a Flexible Sensing and Display CoverChristian Rendl, David Kim, Patrick Parzer, Sean Fanello, Martin Zirkl, Gregor Scheipl, Michael Haller, Shahram Izadi23m
A flexible flip cover prototype combines a flexible e-paper display with a printed piezoelectric 3x5 matrix sensor to add touch, pressure, grip and continuous…
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The Bicycle Barometer: Design and Evaluation of Cyclist-Specific Interaction for a Public DisplaySandy Claes, Karin Slegers, Andrew Vande Moere18m
An interactive Bicycle Barometer combines a pressure-sensitive floor mat, a handrail-mounted push button and a low-resolution LED display to show real-time…
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XDBrowser: User-Defined Cross-Device Web Page DesignsMichael Nebeling, Anind K. Dey20m
A browser called XDBrowser lets nontechnical users drag and redistribute DOM elements across two devices; a lab study with 15 participants, two mobile devices…
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It Matters If My Friends Stop Smoking: Social Support for Behavior Change in Social MediaCorbin Reno, Erika S. Poole10m
Finds from a factorial survey experiment on Mechanical Turk with about 1,300 US participants report odds ratios showing that post content and relationship tie…
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When Tablets meet Tabletops: The Effect of Tabletop Size on Around-the-Table Collaboration with ...Johannes Zagermann, Ulrike Pfeil, ROMAN RÄDLE, Hans-Christian Jetter, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Harald Reiterer20m
System builds a cross-device sensemaking setup with two 9.7" iPads and a single shared horizontal display tested at 10.6", 27", 55" sizes against a VAST 2006…
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TapBoard 2: Simple and Effective Touchpad-like Interaction on a Multi-Touch Surface KeyboardSunjun Kim, Geehyuk Lee12m
TapBoard 2 is a touchpad-like keyboard that merges typing and pointing on one surface using a gesture recognizer that labels touches as touched, dwelling…
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“I don’t want to wear a screen”: Probing Perceptions Of and Possibilities for Dynamic Displays ...Laura Devendorf, Joanne Lo, Noura Howell, Jung Lin Lee, Nan-Wei Gong, M. Emre Karagozler, Shiho Fukuhara, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, Kimiko Ryokai18m
A fabric display called Ebb uses thermochromic paint-coated conductive yarn woven and crocheted into garments and driven by an Arduino Pro Mini and battery…
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HandMark Menus: Rapid Command Selection and Large Command Sets on Multi-Touch DisplaysMd. Sami Uddin, Carl Gutwin, Ben Lafreniere20m
Bimanual, hand-centered menus are implemented on a multi-touch tabletop and compared experimentally to standard tab menus (Tabs-2 and Tabs-8) using eight…
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Sleep Debt in Student Life: Online Attention Focus, Facebook, and MoodGloria Mark, Yiran Wang, Melissa Niiya, Stephanie Reich18m
Seventy-six college students are monitored for seven days using logged computer and phone use plus sleep diaries and daily surveys; analysis uses linear mixed…
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Enhancing Cross-Device Interaction Scripting with Interactive IllustrationsPei-Yu (Peggy) Chi, Yang Li, Björn Hartmann17m
DemoScript parses Weave scripts into an AST, auto-generates a step-by-step cross-device storyboard and a device library, lets developers edit code by dragging…
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EyeGrip: Detecting Targets in a Series of Uni-directional Moving Objects Using Optokinetic ...Shahram Jalaliniya, Diako Mardanbegi17m
EyeGrip automatically flags which horizontally or vertically scrolling item a viewer is attending to by detecting extended smooth pursuit segments in the…
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Smartwatch in vivoStefania Pizza, Barry Brown, Donald Mcmillan, Airi Lampinen17m
Study uses wearable cameras and repurposed cop‑cams to record 12 iPhone users over 34 days, producing 1,009 watch uses; glance counts show timepiece accounts…
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A Cost–Benefit Study of Text Entry Suggestion InteractionPhilip Quinn, Shumin Zhai15m
Measures how suggestion assertiveness—extroverted / ambiverted / introverted—affects real typing utility: a Wizard‑of‑Oz keyboard forces error‑free input, the…
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Adding Human Learning in Brain--Computer Interfaces (BCIs): Towards a Practical Control ModalityNataliya Kosmyna, Franck Tarpin-Bernard, Bertrand Rivet18m
CLBCI implements single-trial classification on EEG motor imagery using FastICA, bandpass filtering, 1 s windows with 250 ms overlap and minimum-distance…
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Conceptual Priming for In-game BCI TrainingNataliya Kosmyna, Franck Tarpin-Bernard, Bertrand Rivet19m
Claim: embedding BCI training inside a game — either as explicit in-game training or as implicit priming — raises immersion and flow without improving…
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Computational Agroecology: Sustainable Food Ecosystem DesignBarath Raghavan, Bonnie Nardi, Sarah T. Lovell, Juliet Norton, Bill Tomlinson, Donald J. Patterson20m
Claims a new field that uses computation to scale site‑specific polycultures that currently exist as backyard and community examples into larger farms; argues…
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Deciphering a Meal through Open Source Standards: Soylent and the Rise of Diet HackersMarketa Dolejšová21m
Open-source Soylent formula spawns a crowd of DIY dieters who publish 5,600 recipes from 30,000 users in 75 countries and use forum troubleshooting, nutrient…
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Printable Hydroponic Gardens: Initial Explorations and ConsiderationsYuichiro Takeuchi16m
Hacked RepRap printers fabricate small hydroponic planters using two approaches: yarn-based felt printing that reliably germinates plants but proves too slow…
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Data Edibilization: Representing Data with FoodYun Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo, Huamin Qu18m
A new method encodes data into edible attributes and tests it with a data tasting workshop of 15 volunteers who sample three concrete designs: cheese flavors…
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An Investigation of Metrics for the In Situ Detection of Software ExpertiseTovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice21m
A logging plug-in installs into AutoCAD and records commands, start/end times, mouse and keyboard timestamps over two to four weeks (minimum eight hours) for…
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Project Jacquard: Interactive Digital Textiles at ScaleIvan Poupyrev, Nan-Wei Gong, Shiho Fukuhara, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Carsten Schwesig, Karen E. Robinson21m
Project Jacquard claims interactive textiles that scale by inventing a solderable conductive yarn (copper core with braided metal sheath, produced in Japan)…
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Understanding Affordance, System State, and Feedback in Shape-Changing ButtonsJohn Tiab, Kasper Hornbæk19m
Study tests 15 participants with 13 shape-changing buttons (10 active, 3 baselines) built with motorized faders and pneumatic actuation, Arduino sensing and…
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Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile InteractionKen Hinckley, Seongkook Heo, Michel Pahud, Christian Holz, Hrvoje Benko, Abigail Sellen, Richard Banks, Kenton P. O'Hara, Gavin Smyth, William A.S. Buxton21m
A prototype self-capacitance touchscreen (Fogale-style) senses fingers hovering and grip around edges, not just taps. An ad-lib interface fades controls in…
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The Ethical Implications of HCI's Turn to the CulturalSteve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Bob Anderson, Rachel Jacobs, Mike Golembewski, Marina Jirotka, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Job Timmermans, Gabriella Giannachi, Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr, Nick Tandavanitj, Kirsty Jennings22m
A three-day workshop with 40 participants stages four case studies — a mobile street performance that removes phones and wallets, a biosensor-fed…
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Understanding Mass Interactions in Online Sports Viewing: Chatting Motives and Usage PatternsMinsam Ko, Seungwoo Choi, Joonwon Lee, Uichin Lee, Aviv Segev16m
Naver Sports data analysis uses 6 million chat messages and 1,123 survey responses with a Users and Gratifications (UGT) approach to link concrete behaviors to…
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