One Sentence This paper introduced Garnet – a toolkit that comprehensively supports the pipeline of building user interface from input handling, specifying and managing constraints, rendering the interface, designing interactors and gadgets, etc. More Sentences The structure of the Garnet…
Simpson’s Paradox
The Simpson’s Paradox occurs when parts of the data show one trend but the combined one shows another. For example, you ran a between-subject study testing whether a tool helps college students solve hard math problems. The data shows the…
Notes on Centrality in Social Network Analysis
There are three types of centralities: Degree centrality: measuring a node’s centrality by its in/out degree (i.e., how many in/out nodes are connected to a this node); Closeness centrality: measuring centrality by summing the distance from a given node to all…
Response to [DataPlay: Interactive tweaking and example-driven ... ] by Abouzied et al.
One Sentence This paper presents DataPlay, a system that allows users to directly manipulate a query tree or to specify a subset of data (answers and non-answers) as a way to iteratively formulate a quantified query. More Sentences Quantified queries…
Response to [Unreliable research: trouble at the lab]
Summary Overall, this article provides a holistic insight into how published academic studies are likely to be flawed, why, and why replication is not going to be easy. Nuggets Type I error: thinking something is true when it is not…
Response to [WebThumb: Interaction techniques for ...] by Wobbrock et al.
One Sentence This paper presents interaction techniques for browsing and using a web page on a small handheld device. More Sentences – A web page is shrunk (thumbnail) while preserving its original contents and layout. A user can use a…
Response to [Wrist rotation ...] by Crossan et al.
One Sentence This paper studied using wrist rotation for target acquisition under four different conditions, with a Fitts’s Law analysis, and a discussion of varied task difficulty. Key Points The four conditions: resting, seated, standing and walking. Tukey HSD test…
Response to [A cross-device interaction ...] by Schmidt et al.
One Sentence This paper prototyped and constructed a design space of using mobile phones as an input/output modality coupled with interactive surfaces. Key Points Mobiles are great for carrying data and media while surfaces offer better scale for interaction with…
Starting to build your first app on Sony Smartwatch (not emulator)
Short version [A HelloWatch project]. Go for it. Long version Some Basic Setup If you haven’t, go download the Sony Add-on SDK => Follow these steps. Locate the SDK on your computer. Find the location of Android SDK manager. In the same directory…
Enabling touch on the Sony Smartwatch (Emulator version)
Enabling touch on the smartwatch is no difference than doing that for an Android device. Conceptually, the watch (the SmallAppWindow object) is just a placeholder for an Android View/Layout/Button/etc. To enable touch you just need to set an OnTouchListener to…
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