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Microsoft Research Contributions to CHI

2009 Accepted Papers

All authors from Microsoft Research except as noted

A Comparison of Mobile Money-Transfer UIs for Non-Literate and Semi-Literate Users (Best of CHI nominee)
Indrani Medhi, Gautama S. N. Nagasena, Kentaro Toyama

A Mischief of Mice: Examining Children’s Performance in Single Display Groupware Systems with 1 to 32 Mice
Neema Moraveji, Stanford University; Kori Inkpen; Edward Cutrell; Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto

Attaching UI Enhancements to Websites with End Users
Michael Toomim, University of Washington; Steven M. Drucker, Microsoft Live Labs; Mira Dontcheva, Adobe Systems; Ali Rahimi, Intel Research; Blake Thomson, University of Washington; James A. Landay, University of Washington

Back-of-Device Interaction Allows Creating Very Small Touch Devices (Best of CHI nominee)
Patrick Baudisch, Hasso Plattner Institute/Microsoft Research; Gerry Chu, Hasso Plattner Institute

Codex: A Dual Screen Tablet Computer
Ken Hinckley; Morgan Dixon, University of Washington; Raman Sarin; François Guimbretière, University of Maryland; Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto

Comparing Semiliterate and Illiterate Users’ Ability to Transition from Audio+Text to Text-Only Interaction
Leah Findlater, University of British Columbia; Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto; Kentaro Toyama

CoSense: Enhancing Sensemaking for Collaborative Web Search (Best of CHI nominee)
Sharoda A. Paul, Pennsylvania State University; Meredith Ringel Morris

Designers Wanted: Participation and the User Experience in Open Source Software Development
Paula M. Bach, Pennsylvania State University; Robert DeLine; John M. Carroll, Pennsylvania State University

Desiring to Be in Touch in a Changing Communications Landscape: Attitudes of Older Adults
Siân E. Lindley, Richard Harper, Abigail Sellen

Dynamic Mapping of Physical Controls for Tabletop Groupware
Rebecca Fiebrink, Princeton University; Dan Morris; Meredith Ringel Morris

EnsembleMatrix: Interactive Visualization to Support Machine Learning with Multiple Classifiers
Justin Talbot, Stanford University; Bongshin Lee; Ashish Kapoor; Desney S. Tan

Exploring Websites Through Contextual Facets
Yevgeniy Medynskiy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mira Dontcheva, Adobe Systems; Steven M. Drucker

FacetLens: Exposing Trends and Relationships to Support Sensemaking Within Faceted Datasets
Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, George G. Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan

It’s Not Easy Being Green: Understanding Home Computer Power Management
Marshini Chetty, Georgia Institute of Technology; A.J. Bernheim Brush; Brian R. Meyers; Paul Johns

It’s Not That Important: Demoting Personal Information of Low Subjective Importance Using GrayArea
Ofer Bergman, Sheffield University; Simon Tucker, Sheffield University; Ruth Beyth-Marom, Sheffield University; Edward Cutrell; Steve Whittaker, Sheffield University

It’s Not What You Know, but Who You Know: A Social Approach to Last-Resort Authentication
Stuart Schechter; Serge Egelman, Carnegie Mellon University; Robert W. Reeder, Microsoft

Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices
Gerard Oleksik, Instrata; Max L Wilson, University of Swansea; Craig Tashman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues; Gabriella Kazai; Gavin Smyth; Natasa Milic-Frayling; Rachel Jones, Instrata

Machine Intelligence
Alex S. Taylor

mimir: A Market-Based Real-Time Question and Answer Service
Gary Hsieh, Carnegie Mellon University; Scott Counts

Pathfinder: An Online Collaboration Environment for Citizen Scientists
Kurt Luther, Georgia Institute of Technology; Scott Counts; Kristin B. Stecher; Aaron Hoff; Paul Johns

Resonance on the Web: Web Dynamics and Revisitation Patterns
Eytan Adar, University of Washington; Jaime Teevan; Susan T. Dumais

Topology-Aware Navigation in Large Networks
Tomer Moscovich; Fanny Chevalier; Nathalie Henry, INRIA; Emmanuel Pietriga, Université Paris-Sud; Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA

User-Defined Gestures for Surface Computing (Best of CHI nominee)
Jacob O. Wobbrock, University of Washington; Meredith Ringel Morris; Andrew Wilson

Visual Snippets: Summarizing Web Pages for Search and Revisitation
Jaime Teevan; Edward Cutrell; Danyel Fisher; Steven M. Drucker, Microsoft Live Labs; Gonzalo Ramos, Microsoft Live Labs; Paul André, University of Southampton; Chang Hu, University of Maryland

What Do You See When You’re Surfing? Using Eye Tracking to Predict Salient Regions of Web Pages
Georg Buscher, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz; Edward Cutrell; Meredith Ringel Morris

2008 Accepted Papers

All authors from Microsoft Research except as noted.

An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts' Law (Best of CHI winner)
Jacob O. Wobbrock, University of Washington; Edward Cutrell; Susumu Harada, University of Washington; and I. Scott MacKenzie, York University

Celebratory Technology: New Directions for Food Research in HCI (Best of CHI nominee)
Andrea Grimes, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Richard Harper

BlindSight: Eyes-Free Access to Mobile Phones
Kevin A. Li, University of California, San Diego; Patrick Baudisch; and Ken Hinckley

CoSearch: A System for Co-located Collaborative Web Search
Saleema Amershi, University of Washington; and Meredith Ringel Morris

CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search
James Fogarty, University of Washington; Desney Tan; Ashish Kapoor; and Simon Winder

Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces
T . Scott Saponas, University of Washington; Desney S. Tan; Dan Morris; and Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto

Do I Live in a Flood Basin?: Synthesizing Ten Thousand Maps
Miguel Elias, University of Chile; Jeremy Elson; Danyel Fisher; and Jon Howell

Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens
Raphael Hoffmann, University of Washington; Patrick Baudisch; and Daniel S. Weld, University of Washington

Experience Sampling for Building Predictive User Models: A Comparative Study
Ashish Kapoor; and Eric Horvitz

Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph (Best of CHI nominee)
David Grimes, University of Washington; Desney S. Tan; Scott E. Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University; Pradeep Shenoy, University of Washington; and Rajesh P.N. Rao, University of Washington

Human-Aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images
Pradeep Shenoy, University of Washington; and Desney S. Tan

IMPROMPTU: A New Interaction Framework for Supporting Collaboration in Multiple Display Environments and Its Field Evaluation for Co-located Software Development
Jacob T. Biehl, University of Illinois; William T. Baker, University of Illinois; Brian P. Bailey, University of Illinois; Desney S. Tan; Kori M. Inkpen; and Mary Czerwinski

Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns (Best of CHI winner)
Eytan Adar, University of Washington; Jaime Teevan; and Susan T. Dumais

Mischief: Supporting Remote Teaching in Developing Regions
Neema Moraveji; Taemie Kim; James Ge; Udai Singh Pawar; Kathleen Mulcahy, Microsoft EDU Workstyle Services; and Kori Inkpen

MySong: Automatic Accompaniment Generation for Vocal Melodies
Ian Simon, University of Washington; Dan Morris; and Sumit Basu

SearchBar: A Search-Centric Web History for Task Resumption and Information Re-finding
Dan Morris; Meredith Ringel Morris; and Gina Venolia

Sonic Interventions: Understanding and Extending the Domestic Soundscape
Gerard Oleksik, University of Surrey; David Frohlich, University of Surrey; Lorna M. Brown; and Abigail Sellen

SuperBreak: Using Interactivity to Enhance Ergonomic Typing Breaks
Dan Morris; A.J. Bernheim Brush; and Brian R. Meyers

Usability Evaluation Considered Harmful (Some of the Time) (Best of CHI nominee)
Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary; and Bill Buxton

Wedge: Clutter-Free Visualization of Off-Screen Locations
Sean Gustafson, University of Manitoba; Patrick Baudisch; Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan; and Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba

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2007 Accepted Papers

All authors from Microsoft Research except as noted.

Understanding Videowork
David Kirk, University if Nottingham; Abigail Sellen; Richard Harper; and Ken Wood

Do-Life Logging Technologies Support Memory for the Past? An Experimental Study Using SenseCam
Abigail Sellen; Andrew Fogg; Steve Hodges; Carsten Rother; Ken Wood; and Mike Aitken, University of Cambridge

Questions Not Answers: A Novel Mobile Search Technique
Matt Jones, University of Wales; George Buchanan, University of Wales; Richard Harper; and Pierre-Louis Xech

InkSeine: In Situ Search for Active Note Taking
Ken Hinckley; Raman Sarin; Patrick Baudisch; Ed Cutrell; Michael Shilman; Desney Tan; and Shendong Zhao, University of Toronto

Easy Album: An Interactive Photo Annotation System
Jingyu Cui, Tsinghua University; Fang Wen; Rong Xiao; Xiaoou Tang; and Yuandong Tian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

What Are You Looking For? An Eye-Tracking Study of Information Usage in Web Search
Ed Cutrell; and Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington

Let's Go to the Whiteboard: How and Why Software Developers Use Drawings
Mauro Cherubini, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Gina Venolia; Rob DeLine; and Andrew Ko, Carnegie Mellon University

IGroup: Presenting Web Image Search Results in Semantic Clusters
Shuo Wang; Feng Jing; Lei Zhang; Jibo He, Peking University; and Qixig Du, Tsinghua University

Disruption and Recovery of Computing Tasks: Field Study, Analysis, and Directions
Shamsi T. Iqbal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Eric Horvitz

Shift: A Technique for Operating Pen-Based Interfaces Using Touch
Daniel Vogel, University of Toronto; and Patrick Baudisch

FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
Jacob Biehl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mary Czerwinski; Greg Smith; and George Robertson

earPod: Eyes-Free Menu Selection Using Touch Input and Reactive Audio Feedback
Shengdong Zhao, University of Toronto; Pierre Dragicevic, University of Toronto; Mark Chignell, University of Toronto; Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto; and Patrick Baudisch

Multiple Mice for Retention Tasks in Disadvantaged Schools
Udai Pawar; Rahul Gupta; Kentaro Toyama; Joyojeet Pal, University of California, Berkeley

Affordances for Manipulation of Physical versus Digital Media on Interactive Surfaces
Lucia Terrenghi, University of Munich; David Kirk, University of Nottingham; Abigail Sellen; and Shahram Izadi

2007 Accepted Notes

An Eye Tracking Study of the Effect of Target Rank on Web Search
Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; and Ed Cutrell

Understanding Memory Triggers for Task Tracking
A.J. Bernheim Brush; Brian Meyers; Desney Tan; and Mary Czerwinski

Comicboarding: Using Comics as Proxies for Participatory Design with Children
Neema Moraveji; Patrick O’Kelley; Suze Woolf; Jason Li, Brown University; Jiarong Ding, University of Michigan

Other research to be presented during CHI 2007

Soap: How to Make a Mouse Work in Mid-Air (interactive demo)
Patrick Baudisch; Mike Sinclair; and Andrew Wilson

Full-Context Videos for First-Time, Non-Literate PC Users (alt.chi)
Indrani Medhi, Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft

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2006 Accepted Papers

All authors from Microsoft Research except as noted.

Clipping Lists and Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design
Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Desney Tan

Face Tracking as an Augmented Input in Video Games: Enhancing Presence, Role-Playing, and Control
Shuo Wang, Xiaocao Xiong (Tsinghua University), Yan Xu (Renmin University of China), Chao Wang (Tsinghua University), Weiwei Zhang, Xiaofeng Dai, Dongmei Zhang

Fast, Flexible Filtering with Phlat – Personal Search and Organization Made Easy
Edward Cutrell, Daniel C. Robbins, Susan T. Dumais, Raman Sarin

FaThumb: A Facet-Based Interface for Mobile Search
Amy Karlson (University of Maryland), George Robertson, Daniel C. Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith

Gaze-Based Interaction for Semi-Automatic Photo Cropping
Anthony Santella (Rutgers University), Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley), Doug DeCarlo (Rutgers University), David Salesin (Adobe Systems and University of Washington), Michael Cohen

Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better than One
Maryam Tohidi (University of Toronto), William Buxton, Ronald Baecker (University of Toronto), Abigail Sellen

Hover Widgets: Using the Tracking State to Extend the Capabilities of Pen-Operated Devices
Tovi Grossman (University of Toronto), Ken Hinckley, Patrick Baudisch, Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley), Ravin Balakrishnan (University of Toronto)

LINC-ing the Family: The Participatory Design of an Inkable Family Calendar
Carman Neustaedter (University of Calgary), A.J. Brush

Mobile Phones and Paper Documents: Evaluating a New Approach for Capturing Microfinance Data in Rural India
Tapan Parikh (University of Washington), Paul Javid (University of Washington), Sasikumar K. (ekgaon technologies), Kaushik Ghosh (Human Factors India), Kentaro Toyama

Precise Selection Techniques for Multi-Touch Screens
Hrvoje Benko (Columbia University), Andrew D. Wilson, Patrick Baudisch

The Springboard: Multiple Modes in One Spring-Loaded Control
Ken Hinckley, Francois Guimbretiere (University of Maryland), Patrick Baudisch, Raman Sarin, Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley), Edward Cutrell

Understanding Photowork
David S. Kirk (University of Nottingham), Abigail Sellen, Carsten Rother, Kenneth R. Wood.

Zone and Polygon Menus: Using Relative Position to Increase the Breadth of Multi-Stroke Marking Menus
Shengdong Zhao (University of Toronto), Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley), Ken Hinckley

Other research to be presented during CHI 2006

DirectPointer: Direct Manipulation for Large-Display Interaction Using Handheld Cameras
Hao Jiang (Tsinghua University), Eyal Ofek, Neema Moraveji, Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University)

Large Display Research Overview
Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Brian Meyers, Greg Smith, Daniel Robbins, Desney Tan

Peripheral Display of Digital Handwritten Notes
Gary Hsieh (Carnegie Mellon University), Kenneth R. Wood, Abigail Sellen

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2005 Accepted Papers

All authors from Microsoft Research except as noted.

AppLens and LaunchTile: Two Designs for One-Handed Thumb Use on Small Devices
Amy K. Karlson (University of Maryland), Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland), John SanGiovanni

Assessing Differential Usage of Usenet Social Accounting Meta-Data
A.J. Bernheim Brush, Xiaoqing Wang (University of Pittsburgh), Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith

Artful Systems in the Home
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan (Brunel University)

Design and Analysis of Delimiters for Selection-Action Pen Gesture Phrases in Scriboli
Ken Hinckley, Patrick Baudisch, Gonzalo Ramos (University of Toronto), Francois Guimbretiere (University of Maryland)

Designing Human Friendly Human Interaction Proofs (HIPs)
Kumar Chellapilla, Kevin Larson, Patrice Simard, Mary Czerwinski

Experimental Analysis of Mode Switching Techniques in Pen-Based User Interfaces
Yang Li (UC Berkeley), Ken Hinckley, Zhiwei Guan (University of Washington), James A. Landay (University of Washington and Intel Research)

Learning User Interest for Image Browsing on Small-Form-Factor Devices
Xing Xie, Hao Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Simon Goumaz, Wei-Ying Ma

Snap-and-Go: Helping Users Align Objects Without the Modality of Traditional Snapping
Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Ken Hinckley, Adam Eversole

StudioBRIDGE: Using Group, Location, and Event Information to Bridge Online and Offline Encounters for Collocated Learning Groups
Susan Yee, Kat S. Park (MIT)

Summary Thumbnails: Readable Overviews for Small Screen Web Browsers
Heidi Lam (University of British Columbia), Patrick Baudisch

Visualization of Mappings Between Schemas
George G. Robertson, Mary P. Czerwinski, John E. Churchill

Other research presented during CHI 2005

A Study of Preferences for Sharing and Privacy
Judith Olson (University of Michigan), Jonathan Grudin, Eric Horvitz

Beyond “From” and “Received”: Exploring the Dynamics of Email Triage
Carman Neustaedter (University of Calgary), A.J. Bernheim Brush, Marc A. Smith

Designing a Generalized 3D Carousel View
Shuo Wang, Marcin Poturalski (Warsaw University), David Vronay

Flexible Timeline User Interface Using Constraints
Kazutaka Kurihara (University of Tokyo), David Vronay, Takeo Igarashi (University of Tokyo

I Saw This and Thought of You: Some Social Uses of Camera Phones
Tim Kindberg (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Mirjana Spasojevic (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Rowanne Fleck, Abigail Sellen

Notes on Fridge Surfaces
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan (Brunel University)

Time Quilt: Scaling up Zoomable Photo Browsers for Large, Unstructured Photo Collections
David Huynh (MIT), Steven Drucker, Patrick Baudisch, Curtis Wong

TxtBoard: From Text-to-Person to Text-to-Home
Kenton O'Hara (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Richard Harper, Axel Unger (IDEO), James Wilkes (The Appliance Studio), Bill Sharpe (The Appliance Studio), Marcel Jansen (The Appliance Studio)

Understanding Research Trends in Conferences Using PaperLens
Bongshin Lee (University of Maryland), Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland)

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2004 Accepted Papers

All authors from Microsoft Research except as noted.

Flat Volume Control: Improving Usability by Hiding the Volume Control Hierarchy in the User Interface
Patrick Baudisch, John Pruitt (Microsoft MSX), Steve Ball (Microsoft eHome)

A Diary Study of Task Switching and Interruptions
Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Susan Wilhite

Multiblending: Displaying Overlapping Windows Simultaneously Without the Drawbacks of Alpha Blending
Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin (University of Saskatchewan)

Designing a Compelling User Interface for Morphing
David Vronay, Shuo Wang (Tsinghua University)

WaveLens: A New View onto Internet Search Results
Tim Paek, Susan Dumais, Ron Logan

Exploring PC-Telephone Convergence with the Enhanced Telephony Prototype
JJ Cadiz, Attila Narin (Microsoft Real-Time Collaboration), Gavin Jancke, Anoop Gupta (Microsoft Real-Time Collaboration), Michael Boyle (University of Calgary)

Supporting Social Presence Through Lightweight Photo Sharing on and off the Desktop
Scott Counts, Eric Fellheimer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Other research presented during CHI 2004

WinCuts: Manipulating Arbitrary Window Regions for More Effective Use of Screen Space
Desney S. Tan, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski

Mouse Ether: Accelerating the Acquisition of Targets Across Multi-Monitor Displays
Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Ken Hinckley, Robert Gruen (Microsoft Corporation)

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