{"title":"Reinventing the inbox: supporting the management of pending tasks in email","authors":"J. Gwizdka","doi":"10.1145/506443.506476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506476","url":null,"abstract":"Email was originally designed as a tool for asynchronous communication. However, its current usage goes far beyond that. One of the most commonly performed activities in email is the management of pending tasks. This research focuses on how to support this activity in email and explores alternative solutions that use different external representations of messages and associated tasks.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124545544","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":"In the lab and out in the wild: remote web usability testing for mobile devices","authors":"Sarah Waterson, J. Landay, Tara Matthews","doi":"10.1145/506443.506602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506602","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss a pilot usability study using wireless Internet-enabled personal digital assistants (PDAs). We compared usability data gathered in traditional lab studies with a proxy-based clickstream logging and analysis tool. We found that this remote testing technique can more easily gather many of the content-related usability issues, but device-related issues are more difficult to capture.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121541206","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":"Comprehension and usability variances among multicultural web users in South Africa","authors":"L. D. Wet, P. Blignaut, Andri Burger","doi":"10.1145/506443.506463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506463","url":null,"abstract":"A usability test was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of a web site in terms of language-use by multicultural users. The results indicated that South African web site developers should take cognisance of the fact that Afrikaans-speaking people find it easier to search for information in Afrikaans (in contrast to English). It seems, however, that there is no need to translate web sites into an African language.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122829571","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":"Evaluating images of virtual agents","authors":"K. Wilson","doi":"10.1145/506443.506633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506633","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the perceived attributes of virtual agents, based on their appearance. The aim was to determine the nature of the psychological processes that influence judgements. It was expected that many of the usual characterisitics of stereotypical judgements would influence attributions made with regard to computer agents. Fourteen agents from a population of 150 were used to obtain similarity judgements, preference data, dimensional analysis, and personality judgements. Multidimensional Scaling analysis suggested that computer agents were categorized according to 2 main dimensions (gender and anthropomorphism). The clustering of agents were across dimensions predicted attributions made, with more positive attrbutions made to female agents, less positive to cartoon agents, and the most negative responses to male agents.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117326041","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":"A dynamic query interface for finding patterns in time series data","authors":"H. Hochheiser, B. Shneiderman","doi":"10.1145/506443.506460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506460","url":null,"abstract":"Identification of patterns in time series data sets is a task that arises in a wide variety of application domains. This demonstration presents the timebox model of rectangular regions that specify constraints for dynamic queries over time series data sets, and the TimeSearcher application, which uses timeboxes as the basis of an interactive query tool.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"53 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115533877","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":"Domain-specific search strategies for the effective retrieval of healthcare and shopping information","authors":"S. Bhavnani","doi":"10.1145/506443.506508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506508","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of users are performing searches on the Web in unfamiliar domains such as healthcare. However, because many users lack domain-specific search knowledge, their searches are often ineffective. An important remedy is to make domain-specific search knowledge in these new domains explicit and available. Towards that goal, healthcare and online shopping experts were observed while they performed search tasks within and outside their domains of expertise. The study: (1) identified domain-specific search strategies in each domain; (2) demonstrated that such knowledge is not automatically acquired from using general-purpose search engines. These results suggest that users should benefit from Strategy Portals that provide domain-specific knowledge to perform searches in unfamiliar domains.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131481364","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":"Applying HCI to music-related hardware","authors":"Gary Fernandes, Cas Holmes","doi":"10.1145/506443.506640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506640","url":null,"abstract":"The application of usability techniques to the development of music-related hardware is rarely discussed in the HCI literature. This is in spite of the fact that such devices could potentially be improved by employing usability methods during their development. This paper documents a case study of an existing electric guitar pre-amplifier. The ease of use of its user interface was investigated using the traditional HCI methods of heuristic evaluation and usability testing. The user interface was susequently modified, and a follow-up usability test confirmed improvements to ease of use. These findings demonstrate that HCI methods can and should be used to enhance the usability of music-related hardware.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"2002 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131383678","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}
Jonathan Green, Holger Schnädelbach, B. Koleva, S. Benford, T. Pridmore, Karen E. Medina, E. Harris, Hilary Smith
{"title":"Camping in the digital wilderness: tents and flashlights as interfaces to virtual worlds","authors":"Jonathan Green, Holger Schnädelbach, B. Koleva, S. Benford, T. Pridmore, Karen E. Medina, E. Harris, Hilary Smith","doi":"10.1145/506443.506594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506594","url":null,"abstract":"A projection screen in the shape of a tent provides children with a shared immersive experience of a virtual world based on the metaphor of camping. RFID aerials at its entrances sense tagged children and objects as they enter and leave. Video tracking allows multiple flashlights to be used as pointing devices. The tent is an example of a traversable interface, designed for deployment in public spaces such as museums, galleries and classrooms.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114598681","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":"Peek-a-drawer: communication by furniture","authors":"I. Siio, J. Rowan, Elizabeth D. Mynatt","doi":"10.1145/506443.506494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506494","url":null,"abstract":"Peek-A-Drawer is a new communication device that uses furniture to support lightweight communication between people. It provides virtual shared drawers that connect family members who are located at a distance. When a user puts something in the upper drawer and closes it, a photograph is taken automatically and the image appears in the lower drawer at a distant place. The operation is as simple as using a drawer, allowing even children to communicate with their grandparents. As the camera only takes pictures of objects inside the drawer, privacy is assured.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124181074","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":"A collaborative foraging approach to web browsing enrichment","authors":"Stephen J. Schultze","doi":"10.1145/506443.506635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506635","url":null,"abstract":"As the amount of Web content grows and diversifies, traditional organizational structures such as keyword search engines and static directories become less useful and comprehensive, requiring more user effort to find relevant information. Information foraging theory [4] and collaborative filtering [6] address this problem in different but compatible ways. This paper introduces an approach called collaborative foraging that applies the biological metaphors of information foraging to the cooperative filtering. The approach assumes that humans best pursue relevent Web content according to optimal foraging behavior, collaborating with communities of like-minded foragers. This paper gives preliminary results of a limited implementation.","PeriodicalId":329538,"journal":{"name":"CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122041241","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}