Archive – All Entries
September 2008
November 2007
July 2007
- Vicki Ha and Anthony Tang awarded 2007 Pacific Century Graduate Scholarships (80)
- Ph.D. Thesis - Incorporating Affect into the Design of 1-D Rotary Physical Controls (122)
- New release of Epresence Server: 4.0 (21)
June 2007
- Wired.Com features Eye-tracking work of Roel Vertegaal (40)
- Dr. Ron Baecker Receives ORION Leadership Award of Merit (27)
- Toronto Star Features Innovative Work of Chris Collins (22)
May 2007
- Carman Neustaedter wins best paper at GI (50)
- Qixing Zheng is Microsoft Canada’s 1st User Experience Advisor (21)
- Moving a Media Space into the Real World through Group-Robot Interaction (13)
- A Predictive Model of Menu Performance (15)
- Welcome Doug Hull - New Chair of the NECTAR Board of Directors (40)
- Thank You to Outgoing Board Chair Ian Kyer (10)
March 2007
- Saul Greenberg receives CHCCS 2007 Achievement award (288)
- Tovi Grossman awarded a 2007 Microsoft Fellowship (287)
- Balakrishnan and students: Massive Number of CHI Publications! (22)
- Ravin Balakrishnan awarded 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (143)
- A Digital Family Calendar in the Home: Lessons from Field Trials of LINC (1334)
- Location-Dependent Information Appliances for the Home (9)
February 2007
- Supporting Multi-Point Interaction in Visual Workspaces (6)
- Nectar Assistant Professor, Sri Subramanian Accepts Position with Philips Research (126)
- How Pairs Interact Over a Multimodal Digital Table (11)
October 2006
- The Design and Field Evaluation of PhotoTalk (1708)
- Leveraging Uncertainty Visualization in Multilingual Chatrooms (1433)
- MSc Thesis: Community Bar: Designing for Informal Awareness and Casual Interaction (256)
September 2006
- And yet a few more videos and demos for CSCW from Calgary (1112)
- AuraOrb: Using Social Awareness Cues in the Design of Progressive Notification Appliances (586)
- LookPoint: An Evaluation of Eye Input for Hands-Free Switching of Input Devices between Multiple Computers (114)
- Eight Nectar Demos and Doctorial Consortium events at CSCW and UIST (218)
- Transient Life: Collecting and sharing personal information. (1206)
August 2006
- Automatic Speech Recognition for Webcasts: How Good is Good Enough and What to Do When it Isn’t (277)
- PhD Candidate Heather O’Brien Garners More Awards (548)
- Interpersonal Awareness in the Domestic Realm (389)
- Two more Videos from Calgary to appear in CSCW (388)
- Three Videos from Calgary to appear in CSCW (353)
July 2006
- Introducing C. Ian Kyer to the NECTAR Community: a Brief Bio (630)
- Message Compression for Groupware (440)
- Groupware Plug-ins: A Case Study of Extending Collaboration Functionality through Media Items (266)
June 2006
- Stacey Scott receives John Kendall Doctoral Award (345)
- Requirements for a Mobile Interactive Workspace to Support Design Development and Coordination (282)
- Welcome to C. Ian Kyer, the new chair to the NECTAR Board of Directors (233)
- Thank you to Outgoing Board Chair Lionel Tolan (336)
May 2006
- NECTAR Ph.D. graduate honoured with distinguished dissertation award (280)
- Secure Scalable Multimedia Streaming (256)
- 89 (573)
April 2006
- Heather O’Brien awarded SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship (681)
- Groupware Plug-ins: A Case Study of Extending Collaboration Functionality through Media Items (267)
- Video traces (158)
March 2006
- The Importance of VR Head Registration on Skilled Motor Performance (1777)
- A Case-Study of Affect Measurement Tools for Physical User Interface Design (886)
- Time Magazine Online! features two Microsoft Projects worked on by Nectar Students (1474)
- Back to School: Design Principles for Improving Webcast Interactivity From Face-to-Face Classroom Observation (231)
- Examining the Content and Privacy of Web Browsing Incidental Information (777)
- Territoriality in Collaborative Tabletop Workspaces (292)
- Storage Bins: Mobile Storage for Collaborative Tabletop Displays (294)
- Perspective Cursor: Perspective-Based Interaction for Multi-Display Environments (661)
- Keeping Up Appearances: Understanding the Dimensions of Incidental Information Privacy (253)
February 2006
- Fluid Integration of Rotation and Translation (1023)
- Interface Currents: Supporting Fluent Collaboration on Tabletop Displays (237)
- Swordfish: User Tailored Workspaces in Multi-Display Environments (516)
- My MDE: Configuring Virtual Workspaces in Multi-Display Environments (234)
- A Continuous and Objective Evaluation of Emotional Experience with Interactive Play Environments (138)
- Nectar and the ACM CSCW Conference (228)
- Bill Buxton joins Microsoft (645)
- Kellogg Booth serving as Acting Director (506)
- SPIHT-based Coding of the Shape and Texture of Arbitrarily-Shaped Visual Objects (272)
- The Effect of Speech Recognition Accuracy Rates on the Usefulness and Usability of Webcast Archives (249)
- Collaborative Coupling over Tabletop Displays (206)
- Co-Authoring with Structured Annotations (336)
December 2005
- Gerald Penn receives Ontario Early Researcher Award (890)
- Canada’s Globe and Mail features work by Vertegaal and Greenberg (316)
- Using Relationship to Control Disclosure in Awareness Servers (501)
November 2005
- A Probabilistic Approach to Modeling Two-Dimensional Pointing (214)
- An Evaluation of Techniques for Reducing Spatial Interference in Single Display Groupware (328)
- Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Orientation on Text Readability in Tabletop Displays (197)
- Previously Reported Papers by Balakrishnan Now Available (307)
- The Effect of Speech Recognition Accuracy Rates on the Usefulness and Usability of Webcast Archives (283)
October 2005
- CSCW Course at Calgary (332)
- Broadcasting Information via Display Names in Instant Messaging (977)
- Interacting with large displays from a distance with vision-tracked multi-finger gestural input (258)
- TractorBeam: Seamless integration of remote and local pointing for tabletop displays (316)
- Distant freehand pointing and clicking on very large high resolution displays (254)
- Zliding: Fluid zooming and sliding for high precision parameter manipulation (1156)
September 2005
- Canvas Portals: View and space management on large displays (13673)
- The Proximity Factor: Impact of Distance on Co-located Collaboration (207)
- Using Physiological Techniques for the Evaluation of Co-located Collaborative Play (200)
- Roles of Orientation in Tabletop Collaboration: Comprehension, Coordination and Communication (270)
- A Groupware Design Framework for Loosely Coupled Workgroups (468)
- CSCW Course begins in EPresence (133)
- Supporting Social Worlds with the Community Bar (433)
August 2005
- Welcoming Dr. Jeremy Birnholtz (177)
- Embodiments for Mixed Presence Groupware (261)
- Rethinking the E-Presence Archive as a Searching and Browsing Repository (153)
- Designing for Engagement (272)
July 2005
- Confidentiality of streamed images and video (820)
- Rapidly Prototyping Multimedia Groupware (137)
- DJ-Audience Awareness in Nightclub Environments (225)
- Empirical investigation into the effect of orientation on text readability in tabletop displays (278)
- An evaluation of techniques for reducing spatial interference in single display groupware (180)
- Designing Haptic Icons to Support an Urgency-Based Turn-Taking Protocol (939)
June 2005
- A Representational Basis for Human-Computer Interaction (1999)
- Nectar Students on Internships (56)
- Network Managers: Dr. Lyn Bartram / Sara Frank Bristow (778)
- Designing Structured Annotations to Support Collaborative Writing Workflow (205)
- Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home (192)
- Perspective Cursor (181)
- Managing Privacy During Ad Hoc Collaboration (197)
- Role-Based Policies to View Shared Applications (172)
- Language of Privacy: Media Space Design (234)
- Awareness in the Home (316)
- Introducing Nectar (181)