All Publications

dg.o 2008

Laying the Foundations for Public Participation and Value Advocacy: Interaction Design for a Large Scale Urban Simulation Batya Friedman, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, Brian Gill, Peter H. Kahn, Travis Kriplean and Peyina Lin.
[Full Paper] Laying the Foundations for Public Participation and Value Advocacy: Interaction Design for a Large Scale Urban Simulation. International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2008. (PDF)

CHI 2008

Access Control by Testing for Shared Knowledge Michael Toomim, Xianhang Zhang, James Fogarty and James A. Landay.
[CHI Note] Access Control by Testing for Shared Knowledge. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces Krzysztof Z Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Desney Tan, Mary Czerwinski and Daniel S. Weld.
[CHI Note] Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
The Personal Project Planner: Planning to Organize Personal Information William Jones, Pedrag Klasnja, Andrea Civan and Michael Adcock.
[CHI Note] The Personal Project Planner: Planning to Organize Personal Information. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, Mike Chen, Jon E. Froehlich, Beverly Harrison, Pedrag Klasnja, Anthony LaMarca, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Ian Smith and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Activity-Based Prototyping of Ubicomp Applications for Long-Lived, Everyday Human Activities Yang Li and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] Activity-Based Prototyping of Ubicomp Applications for Long-Lived, Everyday Human Activities. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
    Best Paper Nominee
An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts' Law Jacob O. Wobbrock, Ed Cutrell, Susumu Harada and I. Scott MacKenzie.
[Full Paper] An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts' Law . Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
    Best Paper Winner
CoSearch: A System for Co-located Collaborative Web Search Saleema Amershi and Meredith Ringel Morris.
[Full Paper] CoSearch: A System for Co-located Collaborative Web Search. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF) [Video
CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search James Fogarty, Desney Tan, Ashish Kapoor and Simon Winder.
[Full Paper] CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces T. Scott Saponas, Desney Tan, Dan Morris and Ravin Balakrishnan.
[Full Paper] Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Employing Patterns and Layers for Early-Stage Design and Prototyping of Cross-Device User Interfaces James Lin and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] Employing Patterns and Layers for Early-Stage Design and Prototyping of Cross-Device User Interfaces. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens Raphael Hoffmann, Patrick Baudisch and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
David Grimes, Desney Tan, Scott Hudson, Pradeep Shenoy and Rajesh Rao.
[Full Paper] Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
    Best Paper Nominee
Pradeep Shenoy and Desney Tan.
[Full Paper] Human-Aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
    Best Paper Winner
Investigating Statistical Machine Learning as a Tool for Software Development Kayur Patel, James Fogarty, James A. Landay and Beverly Harrison.
[Full Paper] Investigating Statistical Machine Learning as a Tool for Software Development. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
K-Sketch: A "Kinetic" Sketch Pad for Novice Animators Richard C. Davis, Brien Colwell and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] K-Sketch: A "Kinetic" Sketch Pad for Novice Animators. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais.
[Full Paper] Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
    Best Paper Winner
MySong: Automatic Accompaniment Generation for Vocal Melodies Ian Simon, Dan Morris and Sumit Basu.
[Full Paper] MySong: Automatic Accompaniment Generation for Vocal Melodies. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan Parikh, Clayton Sims, Marc Mitchell, Werner Maokola, Mwajuma Chemba, Yuna Hamisi, David Schellenberg and Gaetano Borriello.
[Full Paper] e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Lisa Nathan, Eli Blevis, Batya Friedman, Jay Hasbrouck and Phoebe Sengers.
[Panel] Beyond the Hype: Sustainability & HCI. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
A Framework for Understanding Mobile Internet Motivations and Behaviors Carol A Taylor and Judith Ramey.
[Work in Progress] A Framework for Understanding Mobile Internet Motivations and Behaviors. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Lisa Nathan.
[Work in Progress] Ecovillages, Values, and Information Technology: Balancing Sustainability with Daily Life in 21st Century America. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Xianhang Zhang.
[Workshop] Intentional Unusabilty: Supporting deniability through unorthodox design. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
CoSearch: Leveraging Multiple Devices to Enhance Collaboration in Resource-Constrained Environments Saleema Amershi and Meredith Ringel Morris.
[Workshop Paper] CoSearch: Leveraging Multiple Devices to Enhance Collaboration in Resource-Constrained Environments. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)
Meredith Ringel Morris and Saleema Amershi.
[Workshop Paper] Shared Sensemaking: Enhancing the Value of Collaborative Web Search Tools. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. (PDF)

ICWSM 2008

Wikipedian Self-governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean and David W. McDonald.
[Full Paper] Wikipedian Self-governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2008. (PDF)
    Best Paper Award
ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields Jeffrey P. Bigham, Daniel Otero, Jessica N. DeWitt, Anna C. Cavender and Richard E. Ladner.
[Poster] ASL-STEM Forum: A Bottom-Up Approach to Enabling American Sign Language to Grow in STEM Fields. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2008. (PDF)

DIS 2008

David G Hendry and Batya Friedman.
[Paper] Theories and practice of design for interactive systems: Eight design perspectives in ten short weeks. Designing Interactive Systems, 2008. (PDF)

IUI 2008

Jiun-Hung Chen and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008. (PDF)
Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Craig M. Prince and Tyler S. Robinson.
[Full Paper] Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008. (PDF)
TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson.
[Full Paper] TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008. (PDF)

GI 2008

Cascaded Treemaps: Examining the Visibility and Stability of Structure in Treemaps Hao Lü and James Fogarty.
[Paper] Cascaded Treemaps: Examining the Visibility and Stability of Structure in Treemaps. Graphics Interface, 2008. (PDF)

ICMI 2007

Katherine Everitt, Susumu Harada, Jeff Bilmes and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] Disambiguating Speech Commands using Physical Context. International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2007. (PDF)
VoicePen: Augmenting Pen Input with Simultaneous Non-Linguistic Vocalization Susumu Harada, T. Scott Saponas and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] VoicePen: Augmenting Pen Input with Simultaneous Non-Linguistic Vocalization. International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2007. (PDF)

GROUP 2007

Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDonald and Scott A. Golder.
[Full Paper] Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation. Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2007. (PDF)
Value tensions in design: The value sensitive design, development, and appropriation of a corporation's groupware system Jessica Miller, Batya Friedman, Gavin Jancke and Brian Gill.
[Full Paper] Value tensions in design: The value sensitive design, development, and appropriation of a corporation's groupware system. Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2007. (PDF)

ASSETS 2007

A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos.
[Full Paper] A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)
Automated tactile graphics translation: in the field Chandrika Jayant, Matt Renzelmann, Dana Wen, Satria Krisnandi, Richard Ladner and Dan Comden.
[Full Paper] Automated tactile graphics translation: in the field. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)
Barrier Pointing: Using Physical Edges to Assist Target Acquisition on Mobile Device Touch Screens Jon E. Froehlich, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Shaun K. Kane.
[Full Paper] Barrier Pointing: Using Physical Edges to Assist Target Acquisition on Mobile Device Touch Screens. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)
Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication Neva Cherniavsky, Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner and Eve A. Riskin.
[Full Paper] Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)
VoiceDraw: Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing Program for People With Motor Impairments Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] VoiceDraw: Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing Program for People With Motor Impairments. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)
WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna C. Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard Ladner.
[Full Paper] WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)
Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Anna C. Cavender.
[Doctoral Consortium] Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. (PDF)

UIST 2007

Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers Raphael Hoffmann, James Fogarty and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. (PDF)
Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. (PDF)
Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew D. Wilson and Yang Li.
[Full Paper] Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: A $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. (PDF)
Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-Guided Data Integration and Layout Mira Dontcheva, Steven M. Drucker, David Salesin and Michael Cohen.
[Full Paper] Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-Guided Data Integration and Layout. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. (PDF)
SketchWizard: Wizard of Oz Prototyping of Pen-Based User Interfaces Richard C. Davis, T. Scott Saponas, Michael Shilman and James A. Landay.
[Full Paper] SketchWizard: Wizard of Oz Prototyping of Pen-Based User Interfaces. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. (PDF)

IEEE Pervasive Computing 2007

Physical Access Control for Captured RFID Data Travis Kriplean, Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Vibhor Rastogi, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello and Tadayoshi Kohno.
[Article] Physical Access Control for Captured RFID Data. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2007. (PDF)

Security 2007

Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal and Tadayoshi Kohno.
[Paper] Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing. USENIX Security, 2007. (PDF) [Video

HCII 2007

Beth Kolko, Erica Johnson and Emma J. Rose.
[Full Paper] Mobile Social Software for the Developing World. HCI International, 2007. (PDF)

WWW 2007

Beth Kolko, Emma J. Rose and Erica Johnson.
[Full Paper] Communication as Information-Seeking: The Case for Mobile Social Software for Developing Regions. International World Wide Web Conference, 2007. (PDF)

CHI 2007

BrickRoad: A Light-weight Tool for Spontaneous Design of Location-enhanced Applications Alan L. Liu and Yang Li.
[CHI Note] BrickRoad: A Light-weight Tool for Spontaneous Design of Location-enhanced Applications. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007. (PDF)

AMIA 2006

Meredith M. Skeels, Ann Kurth, Marc Clausen and Hal Garcia-Smith.
[Paper] CARE+ User Study: Usability and Attitudes Towards a Tablet PC Computer Counseling Tool for HIV+ Men and Women. Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2006.
Andrea Civan, Meredith M. Skeels, Anna Stolyar and Wanda Pratt.
[Paper] Personal Health Information Management: Consumers’ Perspectives. Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2006.

ASSETS 2006

Indoor Wayfinding: Developing a Functional Interface for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments Alan L. Liu, Harlan Hile, Henry Kautz, Gaetano Borriello, Pat A. Brown, Mark Harniss and Kurt L. Johnson.
[Full Paper] Indoor Wayfinding: Developing a Functional Interface for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. (PDF)
MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner and Eve A. Riskin.
[Full Paper] MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. (PDF)
    Best Student Technical Paper Award
The Vocal Joystick: Evaluation of Voice-based Cursor Control Techniques Susumu Harada, James A. Landay, Jonathan Malkin, Xiao Li and Jeff Bilmes.
[Full Paper] The Vocal Joystick: Evaluation of Voice-based Cursor Control Techniques. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. (PDF)
WebInSight:  Making Web Images Accessible Jeffrey P. Bigham, Ryan S. Kaminsky, Richard Ladner, Oscar M. Danielsson and Gordon L. Hempton.
[Full Paper] WebInSight: Making Web Images Accessible. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. (PDF)
Krzysztof Z Gajos, Jing Jing Long and Daniel S. Weld.
[Poster] Automatically Generating Custom User Interfaces for Users With Physical Disabilities. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006. (PDF)

UIST 2006

Personalizing Routes Kayur Patel, Mike Chen, Ian Smith and James A. Landay.
[Tech Note] Personalizing Routes. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2006. (PDF)

VL/HCC 2006

David G Hendry.
[Paper] Sketching with conceptual metaphors to explain computational processes. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2006. (PDF)

DIS 2006

Steven Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li and James A. Landay.
[Paper] External representations in ubiquitous computing design and the implications for design tools. Designing Interactive Systems, 2006. (PDF)
The impact of pre-patterns on the design of digital home applications T. Scott Saponas, Madhu Prabaker, Gregory Abowd and James A. Landay.
[Paper] The impact of pre-patterns on the design of digital home applications. Designing Interactive Systems, 2006. (PDF)

CACM 2006

Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Perez-Quinonesis, Meredith M. Skeels and Tiziana Catarci.
[Article] Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage. Communications of the ACM, 2006.
Wanda Pratt, Kenton Unruh, Andrea Civan and Meredith M. Skeels.
[Article] Personal health information management. Communications of the ACM, 2006.

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2006

Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, T. Scott Saponas, Gregory Abowd and Umakishore Ramachandran.
[Journal Article] UbiqStack: a taxonomy for a ubiquitous computing software stack. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2006.

GROUP 2005

Cleidson de Souza, Jon E. Froehlich and Paul Dourish.
[Full Paper] Seeking the Source: Software Source Code as a Social and Technical Artifact. Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2005.

UIST 2005

Krzysztof Z Gajos and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] Preference Elicitation for Interface Optimization. Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2005. (PDF)

CHI 2005

Meredith M. Skeels, Kiera Henning, Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz and Wanda Pratt.
[CHI Note] Interaction Design for Literature-Based Discovery. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005.

Less is more 2005

James A. Landay, Genevieve Bell and T. Scott Saponas.
[Paper] Digital Simplicity: Usable Personal Ubicomp. International Forum: 'Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity, 2005.

MPAC 2004

Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, T. Scott Saponas, Matthew Wollenetz, Umakishore Ramachandran and Gregory Abowd.
[Paper] Toward a standard ubiquitous computing framework. International Workshop on Mddleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing, 2004. (PDF)

VL/HCC 2004

Michael Toomim, Andrew Begel and Susan L Graham.
[Paper] Managing Duplicated Code with Linked Editing. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2004. (PDF)

DIS 2004

David G Hendry.
[Paper] Communication functions and the adaptation of design representations in interdisciplinary teams. Designing Interactive Systems, 2004. (PDF)

ICSE 2004

Jon E. Froehlich and Paul Dourish.
[Full Paper] Unifying Artifacts and Activities in a Visual Tool for Distributed Software Development Teams. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, 2004.

IUI 2004

Krzysztof Z Gajos and Daniel S. Weld.
[Full Paper] SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004. (PDF)