{"title":"ThumbText: Text Entry for Wearable Devices Using a Miniature Ring","authors":"Junhyeok Kim, W. Delamare, Pourang Irani","doi":"10.20380/GI2018.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20380/GI2018.04","url":null,"abstract":"Users can benefit from using an auxiliary peripheral that could mitigate many concerns with direct text entry on wearable devices. We introduce ThumbText, a thumb-operated text entry approach for a ring-sized touch surface. Through a multi-part exploration, we first identify a suitable discretization of the miniature touch surface for thumb input. We then design a number of two-step selection techniques for supporting the input of at least 28 characters. On a miniature touch surface, we find that a continuous touch-slide-lift selection technique in a 2×3 grid discretization offers improved performance gains over other selection methods. Finally, we evaluate ThumbText against techniques also designed for wearable devices and find that ThumbText allows for higher text entry rates than SwipeBoard and H4-Writer.","PeriodicalId":230994,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123954305","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":"Quality 'Alone' Time through Conversations and Storytelling: Podcast Listening Behaviors and Routines","authors":"Yasamin Heshmat, Lillian Yang, Carman Neustaedter","doi":"10.20380/GI2018.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20380/GI2018.11","url":null,"abstract":"Audio podcasts have been widely used for more than a decade where millions of people listen to digital content on mobile devices. Despite a large amount of research on podcasts, there have not been any studies that explore the detailed listening practices of frequent podcast users, in particular, with a focus on understanding how podcasts support alone time. We conducted an interview study to understand and learn from such practices. Our results point to the characteristics of podcast technology that made it suitable for supporting people's ability to be alone yet still feel like they were connected to others. This included being able to multitask while listening to a podcast, escape from times of boredom, and even have experiential moments of self-reflection. These behaviors were supported by the flexibility of podcasts as a storytelling medium, a feeling of intimacy and connection with the podcast host, and podcasts' ability to make people feel like they are part of a conversation even when alone. We explore how these features suggest direction for technologies that can support alone time.","PeriodicalId":230994,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference","volume":"26 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127231109","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":"Sentiment Bias in Predictive Text Recommendations Results in Biased Writing","authors":"Kenneth C. Arnold, K. Chauncey, Krzysztof Z Gajos","doi":"10.20380/GI2018.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20380/GI2018.07","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research has demonstrated that intelligent systems make biased decisions because they are trained on biased data. As people increasingly leverage intelligent systems to enhance their productivity and creativity, could system biases affect what people create? We demonstrate that in at least one domain (writing restaurant reviews), biased system behavior leads to biased human behavior: People presented with phrasal text entry shortcuts that were skewed positive wrote more positive reviews than they did when presented with negative-skewed shortcuts. This result contributes to the pertinent debate about the role of intelligent systems in our society.","PeriodicalId":230994,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133144177","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":"Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference","authors":"T. Popa, Karyn Moffatt","doi":"10.5555/3374362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3374362","url":null,"abstract":"Graphics Interface is the oldest continuously-scheduled conference in computer graphics and human-computer interaction. The conference dates back to 1969, when it was the \"Canadian Man-Computer Communications Seminar\", changing its name in 1982 to Graphics Interface. This year is Graphics Interface's 42nd year, and it takes place in Victoria, British Columbia from June 1st to 3rd. \u0000 \u0000The program for Graphics Interface 2016 features 26 papers. We received 33 (HCI) + 29 (Graphics) submissions. Among these high-quality submissions, we were able to accept 13 papers from the HCI track (39%), and 13 papers from the Graphics track (45%). \u0000 \u0000The program committee comprised 29 experts from Graphics and HCI. Each paper was formally reviewed by two committee members, at least two external reviewers, and often received informal reviews from more. A fully double-blind reviewing process was used: the identity of the paper authors was known only to the program committee and to the primary committee member assigned to the submission.","PeriodicalId":230994,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124744931","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}