Author: Viral ShrikantPasad

“Is this what you meant? Promoting listening on the Web with Reflect. Travis Kriplean, Michael Toomim, Jonathan Morgan, Alan Borning, Andrew J. Ko” “Lessons form ThoughtSwap-ing: Increasing participant’s co-ordinative agency in facilitated discussions. Margaret Dickey-Kurdziolek, Matthew Schaefer, Deborah Tatar, Ian P. Renga” The first paper examines how Active Listening can be facilitated and improved. The…

“From Diversity to Creativity: Stimulating Group Brainstorming with Cultural Differences and Conversationally-Retrieved Pictures. Hao-Chuan Wang, Susan R. Fussell, Dan Cosley. This study classifies the two forms of diversity and explains how brainstorming is affected by internal and externals diversity. The authors discuss how brainstorming is positively affected by external stimuli as well as cultural diversity….

“Can Computers Create Art – Aaron Hertzmann” The three articles were very well written, providing a lot of detailed insight to a lay man or even a computer science enthusiast who may not be well versed with the fine details of Art History. The first article talks about how photography became an art form, from…

“Scott R. Klemmer, Michael Thomsen, Ethan Phelps-Goodman, Robert Lee, James A. Landay. Where Do Web Sites Come From? Capturing and Interacting with Design History. CHI 2002, April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. “ The authors propose an intuitive method for the design and history management of website design. A smart virtual wall that allows design…

“Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut. Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in Wikipedia: Quality through Co-ordination. CSCW ’08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work” The authors discuss the process of how a Wikipedia article is edited multiple times to enhance/deteriorate the quality of the same. Since anyone can edit the contents…

“Fraser, C. A., Grossman, T., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017, May). WeBuild: Automatically distributing assembly tasks among collocated workers to improve coordination. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1817-1830). ACM.” The authors propose a novel approach aimed at enhancing the efficiency and collaboration in a group. They develop a system…

“Maxime Cordeil, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Bruce H. Thomas, and Kim Marriott. 2017. ImAxes: Immersive Axes as Embodied Affordances for Interactive Multivariate Data Visualisation. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 71-83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126613” The authors propose a Virtual Reality environment where users…

“Dow, S. P., Glassco, A., Kass, J., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, D. L., & Klemmer, S. R. (2010). Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 17(4), 18.” The paper proposes that parallel prototyping leads to better design results than serial prototyping. Dow et al touch…

“Searching for analogical ideas with crowds” Yu et al. The authors provide a novel approach for finding analogies and ideas to problems and their solutions using crowdsourcing. The internet is full of solutions to different problems, and one need not reinvent the wheel every time while trying to solve a problem. Thus the authors try…

Initial Idea 1- Note-Able 🙂 A crowd-sourced (live?) system that allows student to contribute to a ‘notebase’ for a class being taken by a prof, where each student commits to the notebase ‘line by line’ making it mandatory for students to pay attention in class, contribute just one line to the notebase yet have the…