Gina Venolia

Searching Large Indexes on Tiny Devices: Optimizing Binary Search with Character Pinning (2009)

Tim Paek, Guy Shani, Bo Thiesson, Christopher Meek, Gina Venolia

The small physical size of mobile devices imposes dramatic restrictions on the user interface (UI). With the ever increasing capacity of these devices as well as access to large online stores it...

SearchBar: A Search-Centric Web History for Task Resumption and Information Re-finding (2008)

Dan Morris, Meredith Ringel Morris, Gina Venolia

Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multiquery investigations...

SearchBar: A Search-Centric Web History for Task Resumption and Information Re-finding (2008)

Dan Morris, Meredith Ringel Morris, Gina Venolia

Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multiquery investigations...

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...

Maintaining Mental Models: A Study of Developer Work Habits (2006)

Thomas D. Latoza, Gina Venolia, Robert Deline

To understand developers ’ typical tools, activities, and practices and their satisfaction with each, we conducted two surveys and eleven interviews. We found that many problems arose because...

Designing and Deploying an Information Awareness Interface (2002)

J J Cadiz, Jj Cadiz, Jj Cadiz, Gina Venolia, Gina Venolia, Gavin Jancke, ...

The concept of awareness has received increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. Although many awareness interfaces have been designed and studied, most have been limited...

Language modeling for soft keyboards (2002)

Joshua Goodman, Gina Venolia

Language models predict the probability of letter sequences. Soft keyboards are images of keyboards on a touch screen for input on Personal Digital Assistants. When a soft keyboard user hits a key...

Designing and deploying an information awareness interface (2002)

Jj Cadiz, Gina Venolia, Gavin Jancke, Anoop Gupta

The concept of awareness has received increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. Although many awareness interfaces have been designed and studied, most have been limited...

www.research.microsoft.com/~joshuago (2001)

Joshua Goodman, Gina Venolia, Keith Steury, Chauncey Parker

In this paper, we describe how language models, combined with models of pen placement, can be used to significantly reduce the error rate of soft keyboard usage, by allowing for cases in which a key...