This year Wendy Mackay, Aurélien Tabard and I held a workshop for examining interaction challenges surrounding time, in particular time as a component of temporal data sets. Our interest in this topic was brought about by the observation that low-cost storage, cheap sensing technologies, the Web and high speed networking have started to bring us [...]
Wednesday morning Katrina, Michael, Greg and I presented our paper, “Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool”, to a packed room at noon in the “Personal and Public Information” track at CHI2009 . This paper describes our first study that we conducted with our List.it note taking tool in September [...]
Haystack alum Robin Stewart won Best Note at CHI with a short paper based on his recent masters thesis, “Graph Sketcher: extending illustration to quantitative graphs.” What’s more, his software got bought out by the Omni Group — yes, those OmniGraffle guys — and is being reborn as OmniGraphSketcher! Congrats Robin!
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Last summer, a few other Microsoft Interns and I kicked around the idea of making a Mystery Science Theater 3000 parody video for the new CHI video showcase event. Then we watched a lot — a LOT — of old CHI videos. I’m pretty sure that most people never expected that these would be seen [...]
[Sketchy guy from high school] added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know [sketchy guy from high school] in order for you to be friends on Facebook. Confirm, or ignore?
Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios presented the largest regression analysis at CHI, and it was focused on just this situation. [...]
Moira Burke at al. from facebook studied what led new users to post more over time—in terms of feedback from those how saw their posts, how broadly they were distributed, etc. They counted what happened over someone’s first two weeks on facebook and predicted what would happen over the next 3 months. They considered variables [...]
Stephen Voida presented “It Feels Better than Filing: Everyday work experiences in an activity-based computing system”. ABC deprecates the folder hierarchy in favor of a mechanism for associating files (and other objects) with specific activities. The user specifies which activity they are undertaking, and the system materializes the items ssociated with that activity. Activity [...]