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Monday | Afternoon | 14:30—15:50
PAPER | The User as a Sensor: Navigating Users with
Visual Impairments in Indoor Spaces using Tactile
Landmarks
Navid Fallah, Ilias Apostolopoulos, Kostas Bekris, Eelke Folmer,
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Describes an indoor navigation system that appropriates the user
to be a sensor. The system can improve mobility for users with
visual impairments and can be installed at low cost.
PAPER | Guidelines are Only Half of the Story:
Accessibility Problems Encountered by Blind Users on
the Web
Christopher Power, Andre Freire, Helen Petrie, David Swallow,
University of York, UK
An empirical study of 1383 problems encountered on 16 websites
by 32 blind users. These problems were analysed for whether they
were covered by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version
2.0
n TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS | 19AB
WORKPLACE
SESSION CHAIR: Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany
PAPER | “A Pace Not Dictated by Electrons”: An
Empirical Study of Work Without Email &
Gloria Mark, Stephen Voida, University of California, Irvine, USA
Armand Cardello, U.S. Army Natick RD&E Center, USA
Empirical study shows that when information workers’ email was
cut off, they multitasked less and had lower stress. Results suggest
how organizations can alleviate the burden of email on employees.
CASE STUDY | Designing Experiential Prototypes for the
Future Workplace
Tong Sun, Xerox Innovation Group, USA
Nancy Doubleday, Adam Smith, Rochester Institute of
Technology, USA
Case study describes a successful Xerox-sponsored open
innovation project that generated innovative designs and
prototypes for the future of the workplace with Rochester Institute
of Technology (RIT).
40 | ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
NOTE | You’ve got video: Increasing clickthrough when
sharing enterprise video with email
Mercan Topkara, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Shimei Pan, IBM Research, USA
Jennifer Lai, IBM, USA
Ahmet Dirik, Uludag University, Turkey
Steven Wood, Jeff Boston, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
We summarize our research on increasing the information scent of
video recordings that are shared via email in a corporate setting.
We report on the results of two user studies.
CASE STUDY | Does the iPad add Value to Business
Environments?
Steffen Hess, Jessica Jung, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Case study describing benefits and drawbacks of iPad usage in a
business environment. Can assist companies in understanding how
they can benefit from the use of mobile tablets.
PAPER | Impression Formation in Corporate People
Tagging
Daphne Raban, Avinoam Danan, University of Haifa, Israel
Inbal Ronen, Ido Guy, IBM Research, USA
People tagging offers unique insight about self-presentation and
concurrently the perception by others based on explicit data in the
form of tags in an organizational environment. Findings suggest
design implications.
n SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP | 11B
INVITED: CHILD COMPUTER INTERACTION SIG -
POSTCARDS AND CONVERSATIONS
ORGANIZERS
Janet C. Read, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology,
Netherlands
Allison Druin, University of Maryland, USA
The networking event for the Child Computer Interaction
community, especially designed to welcome new comers in the
field, and to allow lots of informal and personal interaction.