Thursday
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Andy Cockburn
Per-Ola Kristensson
Jason Alexander
Shumin Zhai
Shows that spatial memory is improved by effortful interfaces. Describes a 'frost-brushing' training interface that forces users to either recall items from memory or 'brush the frost' for visual guidance.
Udai Pawar
Joyojeet Pal
Rahul Gupta
Kentaro Toyama
A 238-student study of various single- and multi-mouse configurations for an educational retention-based learning application in rural developing-world schools. Results complex, but suggest shared use as effective as one-student-per-PC.
Tovi Grossman
Pierre Dragicevic
Ravin Balakrishnan
Presents new designs for accelerating the learning of hotkeys, and their experimental evaluation. The new designs can be used to improve hotkey use in any GUI application.