A Short Note about Short Notes (to Self)

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 [...]

Graph Sketcher wins Best Note at CHI

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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CHIstory wins Golden Mouse Award at CHI!

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 [...]

CHI Paper: Predicting Tie Strength with Social Media

[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. [...]