Benjamin B. Bederson
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» 2009 «
Druin, Allison, Cavallo, David, Fabian, Christopher, Bederson, Benjamin B., Revelle, Glenda, Rogers, Yvonne and Gray, Jim (2009): Mobile technologies for the world's children. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 3297-3300. Available online
“In this panel, academic, non-profit, and industry professionals will discuss their global perspectives on mobile technologies for the world's children. Panelists will explore such issues concerning children's access to mobile devices, the decreasing age that children have access to these technologies, mobile innovations for learning, and challenges/opportunities in diverse countries. This interactive session will begin with each panelist giving a short summary of their work-to-date with children and various mobile applications. Then the panelists will be asked questions by children from different countries via pre-recorded video. Audience members will be invited to offer their thoughts and comments as well as the panelists during the video question period. Audience members will also be able to ask further questions throughout the panel discussion.”
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Druin, Allison, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Quinn, Alex (2009): Designing intergenerational mobile storytelling. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC09 Interaction Design and Children 2009. pp. 325-328. Available online
“Informal educational experiences with grandparents and other older adults can be an important component of children's education, especially in circumstances where high quality educational services and facilities are not readily available. Mobile devices offer unique capabilities to support such interactions. We report on an ongoing participatory design project with an intergenerational design group to create mobile applications for reading and editing books, or even creating all new stories on an Apple iPhone.”
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» 2008 «
Quinn, Alexander J., Hu, Chang, Arisaka, Takeshi, Rose, Anne and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2008): Readability of scanned books in digital libraries. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 705-714. Available online
“Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user's configuration that compound to yield text that is degraded and illegibly small. For books which contain only text, this can often be solved by using OCR or manual transcription to extract and present the text alone, or by magnifying the page and presenting it in a scrolling panel. Books with rich illustrations, especially children's picture books, present a greater challenge because their enjoyment is dependent on reading the text in the context of the full page with its illustrations. We have created two novel prototypes for solving this problem by magnifying just the text, without magnifying the entire page. We present the results of a user study of these techniques. Users found our prototypes to be more effective than the dominant interface type for reading this kind of material and, in some cases, even preferable to the physical book itself.”
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Karlson, Amy K. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2008): One-handed touchscreen input for legacy applications. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1399-1408. Available online
“Supporting one-handed thumb operation of touchscreen-based mobile devices presents a challenging tradeoff between visual expressivity and ease of interaction. ThumbSpace and Shift -- two new application-independent, software-based interaction techniques -- address this tradeoff in significantly different ways. ThumbSpace addresses distant objects while Shift addresses small object occlusion. We present two extensive, comparative user studies. The first compares ThumbSpace and Shift to peripheral hardware (directional pad and scrollwheel) and direct touchscreen input for selecting objects while standing and walking. The data favored the Shift design overall, but suggested ThumbSpace is promising for distant objects. Our second study examines the benefits and learnability of combining Shift and ThumbSpace on a device with a larger screen (3.5"). We found their combined use offered users better overall speed and accuracy in hitting small targets (3.6 mm{sup:2}) than using either method alone.”
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Lazar, Jonathan, Hochheiser, Harry, Johnson, Jeff, Karat, Clare-Marie and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2008): CHI policy issues around the world. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 2277-2280. Available online
“While public policy is a recognized important topic within human-computer interaction, not enough attention has been paid to public policy efforts outside of the USA. We propose a panel at CHI 2008 to focus on CHI policy issues around the world. Specifically, we plan to address at least three major topics: accessibility, privacy, and voting.”
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Bederson, Benjamin B. (2008): Experiencing the International Children's Digital Library. In Interactions, 15 (6) pp. 50-54
» 2007 «
Druin, Allison, Weeks, Ann, Massey, Sheri and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2007): Children's interests and concerns when using the international children's digital library: a four-country case study. In: JCDL07: Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007. pp. 167-176. Available online
“This paper presents a case study of 12 children who used the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) over four years and live in one of four countries: Germany, Honduras, New Zealand, and the United States. By conducting interviews, along with collecting drawings and book reviews, this study describes these children's interests in books, libraries, technology and the world around them. Findings from this study include: these young people increased the variety of books they read online; still valued their physical libraries as spaces for social interaction and reading; showed increased reading motivation; and showed interest in exploring different cultures.”
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Kang, Hyunmo, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Suh, Bongwon (2007): Capture, Annotate, Browse, Find, Share: Novel Interfaces for Personal Photo Management. In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 23 (3) pp. 315-337
“The vision of ubiquitous digital photos has arrived. Yet, despite their broad popularity, significant shortfalls remain in the tools used to manage them. We believe that with a bit more creativity and effort, the photo industry can solve many of these problems, offering tools which better support accurate, rapid, and safe shared annotations with comfortable and efficient browsing and search. In this article, we review a number of projects of ours and others on interfaces for photo management. We describe the problems that we see in existing tools and our vision for improving them.”
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Suh, Bongwon and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2007): Semi-automatic photo annotation strategies using event based clustering and clothing based person recognition. In Interacting with Computers, 19 (4) pp. 524-544
“Managing a large number of digital photos is a challenging task for casual users. Personal photos often don't have rich metadata, or additional information associated with them. However, available metadata can play a crucial role in managing photos. Labeling the semantic content of photos (i.e., annotating them), can increase the amount of metadata and facilitate efficient management. However, manual annotation is tedious and labor intensive while automatic metadata extraction techniques often generate inaccurate and irrelevant results. This paper describes a semi-automatic annotation strategy that takes advantage of human and computer strengths. The semi-automatic approach enables users to efficiently update automatically obtained metadata interactively and incrementally. Even though automatically identified metadata are compromised with inaccurate recognition errors, the process of correcting inaccurate information can be faster and easier than manually adding new metadata from scratch. In this paper, we introduce two photo clustering algorithms for generating meaningful photo groups: (1) Hierarchical event clustering; and (2) Clothing based person recognition, which assumes that people who wear similar clothing and appear in photos taken in one day are very likely to be the same person. To explore our semi-automatic strategies, we designed and implemented a prototype called SAPHARI (Semi-Automatic PHoto Annotation and Recognition Interface). The prototype provides an annotation framework which focuses on making bulk annotations on automatically identified photo groups. The prototype automatically creates photo clusters based on events, people, and file metadata so that users can easily bulk annotation photos. We performed a series of user studies to investigate the effectiveness and usability of the semi-automatic annotation techniques when applied to personal photo collections. The results show that users were able to make annotations significantly faster with event clustering using SAPHARI. We also found that users clearly preferred the semi-automatic approaches.”
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Hutchinson, Hilary Browne, Druin, Allison and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2007): Supporting elementary-age children's searching and browsing: Design and evaluation using the international children's digital library. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (11) pp. 1618-1630
Karlson, Amy K. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2007): ThumbSpace: Generalized One-Handed Input for Touchscreen-Based Mobile Devices. In: Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) DEGAS 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services September 11th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 324-338. Available online
» 2006 «
Hutchinson, Hilary Browne, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Druin, Allison (2006): The evolution of the international children's digital library searching and browsing interface. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC06: Interaction Design and Children 2006. pp. 105-112. Available online
“Elementary-age children (ages 6-11) are among the largest user groups of computers and the Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing tools to support them. However, many such tools do not consider their skills and preferences. In this paper, we present the design rationale and process for creating the searching and browsing tool for the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL), the results from a user study evaluating it, and the challenges and possibilities it presents for other children's interfaces.”
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Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Lee, Bongshin and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2006): Exploring content-actor paired network data using iterative query refinement with NetLens. In: JCDL06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006. p. 372. Available online
“Networks have remained a challenge for information retrieval and visualization because of the rich set of tasks that users want to accomplish. This paper demonstrates a tool, NetLens, to explore a Content-Actor paired network data model. The NetLens interface was designed to allow users to pose a series of elementary queries and iteratively refine visual overviews and sorted lists. This enables the support of complex queries that are traditionally hard to specify in node-link visualizations. NetLens is general and scalable in that it applies to any dataset that can be represented with our abstract Content-Actor data model.”
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Plaisant, Catherine, Clamage, Aaron, Hutchinson, Hilary Browne, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Druin, Allison (2006): Shared family calendars: Promoting symmetry and accessibility. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 13 (3) pp. 313-346
“We describe the design and use of a system facilitating the sharing of calendar information between remotely located, multi-generational family members. Most previous work in this area involves software enabling younger family members to monitor their parents. We have found, however, that older adults are equally if not more interested in the activities of younger family members. The major obstacle preventing them from participating in information sharing is the technology itself. Therefore, we developed a multi-layered interface approach that offers simple interaction to older users. In our system, users can choose to enter information into a computerized calendar or write it by hand on digital paper calendars. All of the information is automatically shared among everyone in the distributed family. By making the interface more accessible to older users, we promote symmetrical sharing of information among both older and younger family members. We present our participatory design process, describe the user interface, and report on an exploratory field study in three households of an extended family.”
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Parhi, Pekka, Karlson, Amy K. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2006): Target size study for one-handed thumb use on small touchscreen devices. In: Proceedings of 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services 2006. pp. 203-210. Available online
“This paper describes a two-phase study conducted to determine optimal target sizes for one-handed thumb use of mobile handheld devices equipped with a touch-sensitive screen. Similar studies have provided recommendations for target sizes when using a mobile device with two hands plus a stylus, and interacting with a desktop-sized display with an index finger, but never for thumbs when holding a small device in a single hand. The first phase explored the required target size for single-target (discrete) pointing tasks, such as activating buttons, radio buttons or checkboxes. The second phase investigated optimal sizes for widgets used for tasks that involve a sequence of taps (serial), such as text entry. Since holding a device in one hand constrains thumb movement, we varied target positions to determine if performance depended on screen location. The results showed that while speed generally improved as targets grew, there were no significant differences in error rate between target sizes =9.6 mm in discrete tasks and targets =7.7 mm in serial tasks. Along with subjective ratings and the findings on hit response variability, we found that target size of 9.2 mm for discrete tasks and targets of 9.6 mm for serial tasks should be sufficiently large for one-handed thumb use on touchscreen-based handhelds without degrading performance and preference.”
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Parhi, Pekka, Karlson, Amy K. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2006): Target size study for one-handed thumb use on small touchscreen devices. In: Nieminen, Marko and Röykkee, Mika (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Mobile HCI 2006 September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 203-210. Available online
Shneiderman, Ben, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Drucker, Steven M. (2006): Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share. In Communications of the ACM, 49 (4) pp. 69-71
Teevan, Jaime, Jones, William and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2006): Introduction. In Communications of the ACM, 49 (1) pp. 40-43
» 2005 «
Karlson, Amy K., Bederson, Benjamin B. and SanGiovanni, John (2005): AppLens and launchTile: two designs for one-handed thumb use on small devices. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 201-210. Available online
“We present two interfaces to support one-handed thumb use for PDAs and cell phones. Both use Scalable User Interface (ScUI) techniques to support multiple devices with different resolutions and aspect ratios. The designs use variations of zooming interface techniques to provide multiple views of application data: AppLens uses tabular fisheye to access nine applications, while LaunchTile uses pure zoom to access thirty-six applications. We introduce two sets of thumb gestures, each representing different philosophies for one-handed interaction. We conducted two studies to evaluate our designs. In the first study, we explored whether users could learn and execute the AppLens gesture set with minimal training. Participants performed more accurately and efficiently using gestures for directional navigation than using gestures for object interaction. In the second study, we gathered user reactions to each interface, as well as comparative preferences. With minimal exposure to each design, most users favored AppLens's tabular fisheye interface.”
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Klein, Christian and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2005): Benefits of animated scrolling. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1965-1968. Available online
“We examined the benefits of animated scrolling using four speeds and three different document types in terms of task speed, accuracy and user preference. We considered reading tasks involving unformatted and formatted text documents, as well as counting tasks involving abstract symbol documents. We found that, compared with non-animated scrolling, animated scrolling significantly improves average task time, by up to 5.3% using 300 millisecond animations for reading documents and by up to 24% at 500 milliseconds for symbol documents. Animated scrolling also significantly decreases error rates for reading tasks by up to”
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Lee, Bongshin, Czerwinski, Mary, Robertson, George G. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2005): Understanding research trends in conferences using paperLens. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1969-1972. Available online
“PaperLens is a novel visualization that reveals trends, connections, and activity throughout a conference community. It tightly couples views across papers, authors, and references. PaperLens was developed to visualize 8 years (1995-2002) of InfoVis conference proceedings and was then extended to visualize 23 years (1982-2004) of the CHI conference proceedings. This paper describes how we analyzed the data and designed PaperLens. We also describe a user study to focus our redesign efforts along with the design changes we made to address usability issues. We summarize lessons learned in the process of design and scaling up to the larger set of CHI conference papers.”
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Lazar, Jonathan, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hochheiser, Harry, Johnson, Jeff and Karat, Clare-Marie (2005): Making an impact in your community: HCI and US public policy. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 2041-2042. Available online
Shneiderman, Ben and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2005): Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Designing for User Experiences DUX05 2005. p. 9. Available online
“When faced with a challenging goal, knowledge workers need to concentrate on their tasks so that they move forward toward completion. Since frustrations, distractions, and interruptions can interfere with their smooth progress, design strategies should enable users to maintain concentration. This paper promotes awareness of this issue, reviews related work, and suggests three initial strategies: Reduce short-term and working memory load, provide information abundant interfaces, and increase automaticity.”
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Herrnson, Paul S., Niemi, Richard G., Bederson, Benjamin B., Conrad, Frederick G. and Traugott, Michael (2005): A project to assess voting technology and ballot design. In: Delcambre, Lois M. L. and Giuliano, Genevieve (eds.) DG.O 2005 - Proceedings of the 2005 National Conference on Digital Government Research May 15-18, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. pp. 200-201. Available online
» 2004 «
Chipman, Leslie E., Bederson, Benjamin B. and Golbeck, Jennifer A. (2004): SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 23 (1) pp. 1-9
“The SlideBar is a physical linear input device for absolute position control of 1{deg} of freedom, consisting of a physical slider with a graspable knob positioned near or attached to the keyboard. Its range of motion is directly mapped to a one dimensional input widget such as a scrollbar. The SlideBar provides absolute position control in one dimension, is usable in the non-dominant hand in conjunction with a pointing device, and offers constrained passive haptic feedback. These characteristics make the device appropriate for the common class of tasks characterized by one-dimensional input and constrained range of operation. An empirical study of three devices (SlideBar, mouse controlled scrollbar, and mousewheel) shows that for common scrolling tasks, the SlideBar has a significant advantage over a standard mouse controlled scrollbar in user preference. In addition, users tended to prefer it over the mousewheel (without statistical significance).”
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Bederson, Benjamin B., Clamage, Aaron, Czerwinski, Mary and Robertson, George G. (2004): DateLens: a fisheye calendar interface for PDAs. In Interactions, 11 (4) pp. 9-10
Bederson, Benjamin B., Clamage, Aaron, Czerwinski, Mary and Robertson, George G. (2004): DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 11 (1) pp. 90-119
“Calendar applications for small handheld devices are growing in popularity. This led us to develop DateLens, a novel calendar interface for PDAs designed to support complex tasks. It uses a fisheye representation coupled with compact overviews to give the big picture in a small space. The interface also gives users control over the visible time period, as well as supporting integrated search to discover patterns and outliers. Designed with device scalability in mind, DateLens currently runs on desktop computers as well as PDAs. Two user studies were conducted to examine the viability of DateLens as a replacement for traditional calendar visualizations. In the first study, non-PDA users performed complex tasks significantly faster with DateLens than with the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002TM calendar (using a PDA emulator). In addition, they rated DateLens as being easier to use than the default calendar application for a majority of the tasks. In the second study, the participants were expert Pocket PC users and the software was run on their own devices. Again, DateLens performed significantly faster for the complex tasks, and there were satisfaction differences favoring each calendar for different kinds of tasks. From these studies, it is clear that DateLens is superior for more complex tasks such as those associated with longer time periods. For daily event tracking, users familiar with the default Pocket PC calendar strongly preferred its daily view and behaviors.”
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Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison and Guimbretiere, Francois (2004): Differences in pointing task performance between preschool children and adults using mice. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 11 (4) pp. 357-386
“Several experiments by psychologists and human factors researchers have shown that when young children execute pointing tasks, they perform at levels below older children and adults. However, these experiments have not provided user interface designers with an understanding of the severity or the nature of the difficulties young children have when using input devices. To address this need, we conducted a study to gain a better understanding of 4 and 5 year-old children's use of mice. We compared the performance of thirteen 4 year-olds, thirteen 5 year-olds and thirteen young adults in point-and-click tasks. Plots of the paths taken by the participants show severe differences between adults' and preschool children's ability to control the mouse. We were not surprised then to find age had a significant effect on accuracy, target reentry, and efficiency. We also found that target size had a significant effect on accuracy and target reentry. Measuring movement time at four different times (first entering target, last entering target, pressing button, releasing button) yielded the result that Fitts' law models children well only up to the time they first enter the target. Overall, we found that the difference between the performance of children and adults was large enough to warrant user interface interactions designed specifically for preschool children. The results additionally suggest that children need the most help once they get close to targets.”
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Khella, Amir and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2004): Pocket PhotoMesa: a Zoomable image browser for PDAs. In: Doermann, David S. and Duraiswami, Ramani (eds.) MUM 2004 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia October 27-29, 2004, College Park, Maryland, USA. pp. 19-24. Available online
Lee, Bongshin, Parr, Cynthia Sims, Campbell, Dana and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2004): How users interact with biodiversity information using TaxonTree. In: Costabile, Maria Francesca (ed.) AVI 2004 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 25-28, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. pp. 320-327. Available online
Herrnson, Paul S., Niemi, Richard G., Bederson, Benjamin B. and Conrad, Frederick G. (2004): A Project to Assess Voting Technology and Ballot Design. In: DG.O 2004 2004. . Available online
Lee, Bongshin, Czerwinski, Mary, Robertson, George G. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2004): Understanding Eight Years of InfoVis Conferences Using PaperLens. In: InfoVis 2004 - 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 10-12 October, 2004, Austin, TX, USA. . Available online
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Bederson, Benjamin B. and Shneiderman, Ben (2003): The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections. Morgan Kaufman Publishers
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Bederson, Benjamin B., Lee, Bongshin, Sherman, Robert M., Herrnson, Paul S. and Niemi, Richard G. (2003): Electronic voting system usability issues. In: Cockton, Gilbert and Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 145-152.
Hutchinson, Hilary, Mackay, Wendy E., Westerlund, Bosse, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Plaisant, Catherine, Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel, Conversy, Stephane and Eiderback, Bjorn (2003): Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families. In: Cockton, Gilbert and Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 17-24.
Suh, Bongwon, Ling, Haibin, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Jacobs, David W. (2003): Automatic thumbnail cropping and its effectiveness. In: Proceedings of the 16th annural ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology November, 2-5, 2003, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 95-104. Available online
“Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with
a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects
in an image is important in many retrieval tasks, but thumbnails generated by
shrinking the original image often render objects illegible. We study the
ability of computer vision systems to detect key components of images so that
automated cropping, prior to shrinking, can render objects more recognizable.
We evaluate automatic cropping techniques 1) based on a general method that
detects salient portions of images, and 2) based on automatic face detection.
Our user study shows that these methods result in small thumbnails that are
substantially more recognizable and easier to find in the context of visual
search.”
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Hornbæk, Kasper, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Plaisant, Catherine (2003): Navigation patterns & usability of zoomable user interfaces: with and without an overview. In Interactions, 10 (1) pp. 11-12
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Rose, Anne, Farber, Allison and Takayama, Yoshifumi (2003): The International Children's Digital Library: viewing digital books online. In Interacting with Computers, 15 (2) pp. 151-167
“Abstract Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their community libraries. We have begun to address this issue by creating a large-scale digital archive of children's books, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). In this paper we discuss our initial efforts in building the ICDL, concentrating on the design of innovative digital book readers.”
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Knudtzon, Kendra, Druin, Allison, Kaplan, Nancy, Summers, Kathryn, Chisik, Yoram, Kulkarni, Rahul, Moulthrop, Stuart, Weeks, Holly and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2003): Starting an intergenerational technology design team: a case study. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC03: Interaction Design and Children 2003. pp. 51-58. Available online
“This paper presents a case study of the first three months of a new intergenerational design team with children ages 10-13. It discusses the research and design methods used for working with children of this age group, the challenges and opportunities of starting a new team, and the lessons learned.”
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Baudisch, Patrick, Cutrell, Edward, Robbins, Dan, Czerwinski, Mary, Tandler, Peter, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Zierlinger, Alex (2003): Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: Techniques for Accessing Remote Screen Content on Touch- and Pen-Operated Systems. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. p. 65.
Druin, Allison, Bederson, Benjamin B., Weeks, Ann, Farber, Allison, Grosjean, Jesse, Guha, Mona Leigh, Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Lee, Juhyun, Liao, Sabrina, Reuter, Kara, Rose, Anne, Takayama, Yoshifumi and Zhang, Lingling (2003): The International Children's Digital Library: Description and analysis of first use. In First Monday, 8 (5)
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Hornbæk, Kasper, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Plaisant, Catherine (2002): Navigation patterns and usability of zoomable user interfaces with and without an overview. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 9 (4) pp. 362-389
“The literature on information visualization establishes the usability of interfaces with an overview of the information space, but for zoomable user interfaces, results are mixed. We compare zoomable user interfaces with and without an overview to understand the navigation patterns and usability of these interfaces. Thirty-two subjects solved navigation and browsing tasks on two maps. We found no difference between interfaces in subjects' ability to solve tasks correctly. Eighty percent of the subjects preferred the interface with an overview, stating that it supported navigation and helped keep track of their position on the map. However, subjects were faster with the interface without an overview when using one of the two maps. We conjecture that this difference was due to the organization of that map in multiple levels, which rendered the overview unnecessary by providing richer navigation cues through semantic zooming. The combination of that map and the interface without an overview also improved subjects' recall of objects on the map. Subjects who switched between the overview and the detail windows used more time, suggesting that integration of overview and detail windows adds complexity and requires additional mental and motor effort.”
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Plaisant, Catherine, Grosjean, Jesse and Bederson, Benjamin B. (2002): SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation. In: InfoVis 2002 - 2002 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 27 October - 1 November, 2002, Boston, MA, USA. pp. 57-. Available online
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Bederson, Benjamin B. (2001): PhotoMesa: a zoomable image browser using quantum treemaps and bubblemaps. In: Marks, Joe and Mynatt, Elizabeth D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 11 - 14, 2001, Orlando, Florida. pp. 71-80. Available online
“PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser that uses a novel treemap algorithm to
present large numbers of images grouped by directory, or other available
metadata. It uses a new interaction technique for zoomable user interfaces
designed for novices and family use that makes it straightforward to navigate
through the space of images, and impossible to get lost. PhotoMesa groups
images using one of two new algorithms that lay out groups of objects in a 2D
space-filling manner. Quantum treemaps are designed for laying out images or
other objects of indivisible (quantum) size. They are a variation on existing
treemap algorithms in that they guarantee that every generated rectangle will
have a width and height that are an integral multiple of an input object size.
Bubblemaps also fill space with groups of quantum-sized objects, but generate
non-rectangular blobs, and utilize space more efficiently.”
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» 2000 «
Benford, Steve, Bederson, Benjamin B., Akesson, Karl-Petter, Bayon, Victor, Druin, Allison, Hansson, Par, Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Ingram, Rob and Neale, Helen (2000): Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encouraging Collaboration between Young Children. In: Turner, Thea, Szwillus, Gerd, Czerwinski, Mary, Peterno, Fabio and Pemberton, Steven (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2000 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 1-6, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 556-563. Available online
“We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage collaboration so that children are invited to discover the added benefits of working together. This idea has been motivated by our experiences of using early versions of our technologies in schools in Sweden and the UK. We compare the approach of encouraging collaboration with other approaches to synchronizing shared interfaces. We describe how we have revised the technologies to encourage collaboration and to reflect design suggestions made by the children themselves.”
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Bederson, Benjamin B., Meyer, Jon and Good, Lance (2000): Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java. In: Ackerman, Mark S. and Edwards, Keith (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 06 - 08, 2000, San Diego, California, United States. pp. 171-180. Available online
Bederson, Benjamin B. (2000): Fisheye Menus. In: Ackerman, Mark S. and Edwards, Keith (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 06 - 08, 2000, San Diego, California, United States. pp. 217-225. Available online
» 1999 «
Stewart, Jason, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Druin, Allison (1999): Single Display Groupware: A Model for Co-Present Collaboration. In: Altom, Mark W. and Williams, Marian G. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 99 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 286-293. Available online
“We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe the model, comparing it to more traditional remote collaboration. We describe the requirements that SDG places on computer technology, and our understanding of the benefits and costs of SDG systems. Finally, we describe a prototype SDG system that we built and the results of a usability test we ran with 60 elementary school children.”
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Combs, Tammara T. A. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (1999): Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?. In: DL99: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries 1999. pp. 130-137. Available online
Bederson, Benjamin B. and Boltman, Angela (1999): Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?. In: InfoVis 1999 1999. pp. 28-35. Available online
» 1998 «
Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, J. I., Bederson, Benjamin B. and Hollan, James D. (1998): PadPrints: Graphical Multiscale Web Histories. In: Mynatt, Elizabeth D. and Jacob, Robert J. K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 01 - 04, 1998, San Francisco, California, United States. pp. 121-122. Available online
“We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development substrate, to display the history-map. PadPrints functions in conjunction with a traditional web browser but without requiring any browser modifications.”
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Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, J. I., Bederson, Benjamin B. and Hollan, James D. (1998): Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints. In: Hypertext 98 - Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia June 20-24, 1998, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. pp. 58-65. Available online
“We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development substrate, to display the history-map using minimal screen space. PadPrints functions in conjunction with a traditional web browser but without requiring any browser modifications. We performed two usability studies of PadPrints. The first addressed general navigation effectiveness. The second focused on history-related aspects of navigation. In tasks requiring returns to prior pages, users of PadPrints completed tasks in 61.2% of the time required by users of the same browser without PadPrints. We also observed significant decreases in the number of pages accessed when using PadPrints. Users found browsing with PadPrints more satisfying than using Netscape alone.”
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» 1997 «
Druin, Allison, Stewart, Jason, Proft, David, Bederson, Benjamin B. and Hollan, James D. (1997): KidPad: A Design Collaboration Between Children, Technologists, and Educators. In: Pemberton, Steven (ed.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 97 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference March 22-27, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 463-470. Available online
“We established an interdisciplinary, intergenerational collaboration in the fall of 1995, between the University of New Mexico's Computer Science Department, the College of Education, and local Albuquerque elementary school children. The goal of this research was to develop an expressive digital medium with an intuitive zooming interface, to support a learning environment for children. In the process of this collaboration, design methodologies that support a child's role in the development of new technologies were explored. What follows is a summary of our iterative design experience, collaboration, and the results of the research to date.”
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» 1996 «
Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D., Druin, Allison, Stewart, Jason, Rogers, David and Proft, David (1996): Local Tools: An Alternative to Tool Palettes. In: Kurlander, David, Brown, Marc and Rao, Ramana (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 06 - 08, 1996, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 169-170. Available online
“We describe local tools, a general interaction technique that replaces traditional tool palettes. A collection of tools sit on the worksurface along with the data. Each tool can be picked up (where it replaces the cursor), used, and then put down anywhere on the worksurface. There is a toolbox for organizing the tools. These local tools were implemented in Pad++ as part of KidPad, an application for children.”
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» 1995 «
Furnas, George W. and Bederson, Benjamin B. (1995): Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth and Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 234-241. Available online
“Big information worlds cause big problems for interfaces. There is too much to see. They are hard to navigate. An armada of techniques has been proposed to present the many scales of information needed. Space-scale diagrams provide an analytic framework for much of this work. By representing both a spatial world and its different magnifications explicitly, the diagrams allow the direct visualization and analysis of important scale related issues for interfaces.”
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» 1994 «
Bederson, Benjamin B. and Hollan, James D. (1994): Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics. In: Szekely, Pedro (ed.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 17-26.
Bederson, Benjamin B. and Hollan, James D. (1994): Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics. In: Szekely, Pedro (ed.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 17-26. Available online
“We describe the current status of Pad++, a zooming graphical interface that we are exploring as an alternative to traditional window and icon-based approaches to interface design. We discuss the motivation for Pad++, describe the implementation, and present prototype applications. In addition, we introduce an informational physics strategy for interface design and briefly compare it with metaphor-based design strategies.”
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Bederson, Benjamin B., Stead, Larry and Hollan, James D. (1994): Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces. In: Szekely, Pedro (ed.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. --.
Stone, Linda M., Erickson, Thomas, Bederson, Benjamin B., Rothman, Peter and Muzzy, Raymond (1994): Visualizing Data: Is Virtual Reality the Key? (Panel). In: Bergeron, R. Daniel and Kaufman, Arie E. (eds.) VIS 1994 - Proceedings IEEE Visualization 1994 October 17-21, 1994, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 410-413.
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