Facetmap: A scalable search and browse visualization (2008)
Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, George Robertson, Desney S. Tan
Abstract — The dominant paradigm for searching and browsing large data stores is text-based: presenting a scrollable list of search results in response to textual search term input. While this...
Facetmap: A scalable search and browse visualization (2008)
Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, George Robertson, Desney S. Tan
Abstract — The dominant paradigm for searching and browsing large data stores is text-based: presenting a scrollable list of search results in response to textual search term input. While this...
<Context-Aware> schema </Context-Aware> (2008)
Context for the computer can be decomposed into three parts – information about the computing environment, information about the physical environment, and information about the user’s history. In...
Exploring Step User Interfaces (2008)
Brian Meyers, Steven Drucker, Marc A. Smith, Mary Czerwinski
While applications are typically optimized for traditional desktop interfaces using a keyboard and mouse, there are a variety of compelling reasons to consider alternative input mechanisms that...
http://research.microsoft.com Courier: A Collaborative Phone-Based File Exchange System (2008)
Amy Karlson, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Amy Karlson, ...
Abstract. While people often carry mobile phones for communication purposes, they are generally underutilized as productivity tools, especially in the workplace. In this paper we present Courier, a...
Interfaces – graphical user interfaces, windowing systems. (2007)
George Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Dugald Hutchings, Brian Meyers, ...
Our studies have shown that as displays become larger, users leave more windows open for easy multitasking. A larger number of windows, however, may increase the time that users spend arranging and...
Dugald Ralph, Hutchings Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson
The continuing trend toward greater processing power, larger storage, and in particular increased display surface by using multiple monitor supports increased multi-tasking by the computer user. The...
Large display research overview (2006)
Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Brian Meyers, Greg Smith, Daniel Robbins, Desney Tan
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Code Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code (2006)
Robert Deline, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Gina Venolia, Steven Drucker, George Robertson
Modern development environments provide many features for navigating source code, yet recent studies show the developers still spend a tremendous amount of time just navigating. Since existing...
Code Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code (2006)
Robert Deline, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Gina Venolia, Steven Drucker, George Robertson
Modern development environments provide many features for navigating source code, yet recent studies show the developers still spend a tremendous amount of time just navigating. Since existing...
WinCuts: manipulating arbitrary window regions for more effective use of screen space (2004)
Desney S. Tan, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski
Each window on our computer desktop provides a view into some information. Although users can currently manipulate multiple windows, we assert that being able to spatially arrange smaller regions of...
WinCuts: Manipulating Arbitrary Window Regions for (2004)
More Effective Use, Desney S. Tan, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski
Each window on our computer desktop provides a view into some information. Although users can currently manipulate multiple windows, we assert that being able to spatially arrange smaller regions of...
Scalable Fabric: Flexible Task Management (2004)
George Robertson Eric, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Dugald Hutchings, Brian Meyers, ...
Our studies have shown that as displays become larger, users leave more windows open for easy multitasking. A larger number of windows, however, may increase the time that users spend arranging and...
Exploring the use and affordances of multiple display environments. [2 (2004)
Dugald R. Hutchings, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, John Stasko
Abstract. We describe past and ongoing research in our two groups by briefly highlighting a few particularly relevant projects. Our research involves conducting evaluations of multiple monitor...
Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays (2003)
Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Tim Regan, Brian Meyers, Gary Starkweather
Abstract: Larger display surfaces are becoming increasingly available due to multi-monitor capability built into many systems, in addition to the rapid decrease in their costs. However, little is...
Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays (2003)
Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Tim Regan, Brian Meyers
Abstract: Larger display surfaces are becoming increasingly available due to multi-monitor capability built into many systems, in addition to the rapid decrease in their costs. However, little is...
GroupBar: The TaskBar evolved (2003)
Greg Smith, Patrick Baudisch, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, ...
Our studies have shown that as displays become larger, users leave more windows open for easy multitasking. A larger number of windows, however, may increase the time that users spend arranging and...
GroupBar: The TaskBar Evolved (2003)
Greg Smith Patrick, Patrick Baudisch, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, ...
Our studies have shown that as displays become larger, users leave more windows open for easy multitasking. A larger number of windows, however, may increase the time that users spend arranging and...
Ubiquitous computing and the role of geometry (2000)
Barry Brumitt, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Steven Shafer
Mark Weiser described ubiquitous computing as, “invisible, everywhere computing that does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere.”[11] The EasyLiving project...
Ubiquitous computing and the role of geometry (2000)
Barry Brumitt, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Steven Shafer
Mark Weiser described ubiquitous computing as, “invisible, everywhere computing that does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere.”[11] The EasyLiving project...
EasyLiving: Technologies for Intelligent Environments (2000)
Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, John Krumm, A Kern, Steven Shafer
Abstract. The EasyLiving project is concerned with development of an architecture and technologies for intelligent environments which allow the dynamic aggregation of diverse I/O devices into a...
Multi-camera multi-person tracking for EasyLiving (2000)
John Krumm, Steve Harris, Brian Meyers, Barry Brumitt, Michael Hale, Steve Shafer
While intelligent environments are often cited as a reason for doing work on visual person-tracking, really making an intelligent environment exposes many realworld problems in visual tracking that...
Detection and Estimation of Pointing Gestures in Dense Disparity Maps (2000)
Nebojsa Jojic, Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Steve Harris, Thomas Huang
In this paper we describe a real-time system for detecting pointing gestures and estimating the direction of pointing using stereo cameras. Previously, similar systems where implemented using...
EasyLiving: Technologies for Intelligent Environments (2000)
Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, John Krumm, A Kern, Steven Shafer
The EasyLiving project is concerned with development of an architecture and technologies for intelligent environments which allow the dynamic aggregation of diverse I/O devices into a single coherent...