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Studying Group Decision Making in Affinity Diagramming
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2008), TR-08-16
Affinity diagramming is a commonly used contextual design practice for which many tools have been developed. However, experts and novices alike eschew tool use, instead using traditional paper and whiteboard methods. ...
Email-Set Visualization: Facilitating Re-Finding in Email Archives
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2007-05-01), TR-07-13
In this paper we describe ESVT – EmailSet Visualization Tool, an email archive tool that provides users a visualization to re-find and discover information in their email archive. ESVT is an end-to-end email archive tool ...
You've Got Mail! Calendar, Weather and More: Customizable Phone Access to Personal Information
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2004), TR-04-21
We present a design and a prototype of a system that provides access to calendar, email, weather, and news information over a phone using a VoiceXML interface. The system provides quick access to personal information, while ...
Collaborative Design for Young Children with Autism: Design Tools and a User Study
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2013-09-30), TR-13-04
This paper provides an overview of a collaborative design effort that involves computer scientists, psychologists, and designers working together to investigate design methods to help in the creation of technology to people ...
Designing Attention-Centric Notification Systems: Five HCI Challenges
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2005), TR-05-13
Through an examination of the emerging domain of cognitive systems, with a focus on attention-centric cognitive systems used for notification, this document explores the human-computer interaction challenges that must be ...
Collaborative Storyboarding: Artifact-Driven Construction of Shared Understanding
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2009), TR-09-02
Collaborative storyboarding, with a focus on aggregating designers’ expertise in the storyboarding process, offers the opportunity for a group of designers to make progress toward creating a visual narrative for a new ...
Accounts from a Claims Reuse Experience: Design of an Airline Fares Tracker
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2007-12-01), TR-07-18
Previous research efforts have led to the establishment of a repository of claims as reusable knowledge entities. Through the analysis, design, and prototyping of a notification system aimed at monitoring airfares across ...
Grid Community Characteristics and their Relation to Grid Security
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2003), TR-03-20
The size, dynamics, composition and similar characteristics of Grid Communities constitute important data for Grid security requirements gathering and analysis. Collaborative Grid Communities are especially important as ...
Personalization by Partial Evaluation.
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2001), TR-01-01
The central contribution of this paper is to model personalization by the programmatic notion of partial evaluation.Partial evaluation is a technique used to automatically specialize programs, given incomplete information ...
Large High Resolution Displays for Co-Located Collaborative Intelligence Analysis
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2011-11-01), TR-11-23
Large, high-resolution vertical displays carry the potential to increase the accuracy of collaborative sensemaking, given correctly designed visual analytics tools. From an exploratory user study using a fictional intelligence ...