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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
What's in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category structure
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which has undergone tremendous growth. However, this same growth has made it difficult to characterize its content and coverage. In this paper ...
Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Designing trustworthy situated services: an implicit and explicit assessment of locative images-effect on trust
This paper examines a visual design element unique to situated, hot-spot style, services: locativeness. This is the extent to which the media representing a service relates to its...
Vassilis Kostakos, Ian Oakley
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
WattBot: a residential electricity monitoring and feedback system
Electricity production emits carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, adversely influences global climate change, depletes limited natural resources, and negatively imp...
Dane Petersen, Jay Steele, Joe Wilkerson
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
189views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
QuickDraw: bringing graphics into first year
This paper describes a new tool for introducing computer graphics and multimedia applications into first year, called QuickDraw, and our experience using it. QuickDraw provides an...
Ben Stephenson, Craig Taube-Schock
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
130views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Introducing PyLighter: dynamic code highlighter
Like a screenplay, a program is both a static artifact and instructions for a dynamic performance. This duality can keep laypeople from appreciating the complexity of software sys...
Michael G. Boland, Curtis C. Cliburn