Queries over large scale (petabyte) data bases often mean waiting overnight for a result to
come back. Scale costs time. Such time also means that potential avenues of exploration are …

Mindfulness is a term seen with increasing frequency in HCI literature, and yet the term itself
is used almost as variously as the number of papers in which it appears. This diversity …

When users have poorly defined or complex goals, search interfaces that offer only keyword‐searching
facilities provide inadequate support to help them reach their information‐…

In this article we investigate information scraps—personal information where content has been
scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on the corners of sheets of paper, stuck in our pockets…

If you do not know much about classical music, how do you discover what you might like?
The first port of call for most people is to Google “classical music.” This returns a list of links to …

We present radial scroll, an interface widget to support scrolling particularly on either small
or large scale touch displays. Instead of dragging a elevator in a scroll bar, or using repetitive …

On the Android platform, apps make use of personal data as part of their business model,
trading location, contacts, photos and more for app use. Few people are particularly aware of …

Serendipity has a long tradition in the history of science as having played a key role in many
significant discoveries. Computer scientists, valuing the role of serendipity in discovery, …

UI elements from traditional PC interfaces, most participants suggested mouse-like single-point
or simple-path gestures [1]. The participants, too, acknowledged these biases: One said,“I…

Personal data lie at the forefront of different business models and constitute the main source
of revenue of several online companies. In many cases, consumers may have incomplete …