{"title":"Tamil market: a spoken dialog system for rural India","authors":"M. Plauché, Madhu K. Prabaker","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125746","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the design process, results, and observations from a pilot user study for Tamil Market, a speech-driven agricultural query system, conducted in community centers in rural India. The primary users were rural villagers of varying degrees of literacy from three districts of Tamil Nadu. Preliminary findings from a Wizard-of-Oz field study show that rural villagers are able to navigate through a dialog system using their voice, regardless of literacy level and previous experience with technology. Traditional user study techniques, however, favor literate users and are ill-suited to research in developing regions.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117078714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leizhong Zhang, Qiong Yang, Ta Bao, D. Vronay, Xiaoou Tang
{"title":"Imlooking: image-based face retrieval in online dating profile search","authors":"Leizhong Zhang, Qiong Yang, Ta Bao, D. Vronay, Xiaoou Tang","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125739","url":null,"abstract":"Textual search, the approach used by the majority of existing online dating sites, successfully covers a variety of attributes, such as age range and gender, but falls short when searching for facial features. Meanwhile, by using images as the query in a search, current image-based face-retrieval applications ease the challenge of textual description from users, but only focus on finding the same person. We believe there is a gap that needs to be filled in image-based face retrieval to further support the interpersonal search scenarios on Internet dating sites. Therefore, we are introducing a profile search prototype -- ImLooking - using an augmented image-based face retrieval filter. First, we present a prototype design and offer technical support. In a user study, participants quickly felt at home in user interface and acclimatized to the way the prototype operates. In addition, they reported they enjoyed the interaction process.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117210896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marek Kudlacz, Robert Tan, Jon Prindiville, Marc Peters
{"title":"RoutePlanner","authors":"Marek Kudlacz, Robert Tan, Jon Prindiville, Marc Peters","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125801","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the RoutePlanner, a portable personal training and motivational aide, which displays real-time statistical and locational data. We focus on the iterative design techniques associated with developing requirements and functionality, while looking at the role user testing and feedback played in the refinement of our design.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124614690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the personal to the profound: understanding the blog life cycle","authors":"David Gurzick, W. Lutters","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125614","url":null,"abstract":"This ongoing research project investigates the changes that occur to weblogs (blogs) throughout their lifespan. It examines both the markers that indicate a particular phase of its existence in our emerging life cycle model and the drivers that move the community through those cycles. Emphasis is placed on identifying likely causes for abandonment at each phase. Implications of this research are both social, promoting the health of the blogosphere in general, and technical, appropriately mapping tools to correct life cycle stages.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129748684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scott Jenson, Harry Sadler, Charlie Hill, C. Disalvo
{"title":"Design communication","authors":"Scott Jenson, Harry Sadler, Charlie Hill, C. Disalvo","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125465","url":null,"abstract":"Why is design communication so hard? We've all been in the situation: a room full of people, a usability test with clear problems and obvious outcomes. Yet the team can't agree on a design solution. Why does this happen? How can intelligent people disagree so strongly when looking at the same data?.This panel approaches a problem that has not been discussed much at CHI: the social interaction of the design process.Each of the four panelists, who have broad industry experience in consulting, in-house design centers, and academics, will each take a different position on this problem. Is this simply a matter of vocabulary, process, experience, or competence?.This panel will start off with brief statements by each panel member and then spend the majority of the session debating each panelists position. The last third of the session will be opened up to audience questions.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"121 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128495112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sharable digital TV: relating ethnography to design through un-useless product suggestions","authors":"Jisoo Park, M. Blythe, A. Monk, David M. Grayson","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125676","url":null,"abstract":"The results presented here are part of an in depth study of current digital TV usage carried out for a manufacturer of domestic appliances. A systematic review of the literature revealed a set of issues that informed the design of an ethnographic study of five households of differing type. The concerns identified were then further explored through sketch-based conceptual designs, four of which are reported here. They are: (i) putting the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) onto a mobile phone to facilitate personalisation and to allow one person to use it while another is watching a programme; (ii) family voting to make explicit certain power relationships in the family and perhaps democratise them; (iii) using the TV for other purposes when not watching programs (e.g., as a message board or electronic picture frame) to avoid the ugliness of a blank TV screen, and (iv) multi-channel hopping to facilitate idly flicking through the channels. These suggestions are not fully worked designs but provocative concepts to relate the concerns identified to design. In this sense they are \"un-useless\" and draw on the playful and provocative tradition of chindogu.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128179537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Convertino, Yang Zhang, Brian Asti, M. Rosson, S. Mohammed
{"title":"Board-based collaboration in cross-cultural pairs","authors":"G. Convertino, Yang Zhang, Brian Asti, M. Rosson, S. Mohammed","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125586","url":null,"abstract":"This work in progress reports a study of cross-cultural collaboration mediated by board-based collaborative systems. American-Chinese and American-American pairs performed collaborative design tasks either face-to-face or remotely. Survey data, video recording, and design products were collected to examine the impact of culture (American-American vs. American-Chinese), medium (face-to-face vs. remote), and system (MimioTM vs. SMART BoardTM) on the process and outcomes of collaboration. Results from the survey showed significant effects of these variables on several reliable measures of common ground, cognitive consensus building, perceived performance, and satisfaction. The effects on perceived performance were robust. American-Chinese pairs reported a significantly lower level of consensus when using a system that supports uni-directional (Mimio™) rather than bi-directional interaction on the board.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127189852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Bly, Bill N. Schilit, David W. Mcdonald, Barbara Rosario, Y. Saint-Hilaire
{"title":"Broken expectations in the digital home","authors":"S. Bly, Bill N. Schilit, David W. Mcdonald, Barbara Rosario, Y. Saint-Hilaire","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125571","url":null,"abstract":"As part of an ongoing effort to understand ease of use of digital home technologies, we undertook an exploratory study of people who use their home networks for more than just broadband Internet access. In particular, we wanted to understand the overhead, or problem-time, people spent with their home network devices. As expected, we saw issues of broken hardware and broken software. We also found that problems are often caused by broken expectations, a mismatch between what a person expects to be able to do and specific device capabilities. In this paper we explore broken expectations in the digital home with examples from our study. These observations suggest further research into the ways user expectations and activities shape the digital home experience.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129045639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qi Wang, Vincent Lévesque, Jérôme Pasquero, V. Hayward
{"title":"A haptic memory game using the STRESS2 tactile display","authors":"Qi Wang, Vincent Lévesque, Jérôme Pasquero, V. Hayward","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125510","url":null,"abstract":"A computer implementation of a classic memory card game was adapted to rely on touch rather than vision. Instead of memorizing pictures on cards, players explore tactile graphics on a computer-generated virtual surface. Tactile sensations are created by controlling dynamic, distributed lateral strain patterns on a fingerpad in contact with a tactile display called STRESS2. The tactile graphics are explored by moving the device within the workspace of a 2D planar carrier. Three tactile rendering methods were developed and used to create distinct tactile memory cards. The haptic memory game showcases the capabilities of this novel tactile display technology.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131052519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-fi prototyping for mobile devices","authors":"M. Sá, L. Carriço","doi":"10.1145/1125451.1125592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125592","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a set of concepts for user-centered design methodologies that apply to mobile and multi-device applications. It ranges from initial data gathering and specification processes to the creation of low-fidelity prototypes and their evaluation. The focus is given to usability issues of ubiquitous, context and ambient intelligent applications. The paper's main contributions are (1) the description of our findings on how to engage on the early stage prototyping process, involving mobility; (2) a set of details that need to be taken into consideration so that the design and prototyping process is successful; (3) a set of guidelines on how to evaluate mobile applications on their context of use at an early design stage and (4) a rapid prototyping framework which allows designers to quickly move from their hand-drawn sketches to semi-functional software prototypes, particularly for PDAs and Smart phones.","PeriodicalId":201154,"journal":{"name":"CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"22 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130884814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}