The growth of mobile and wearable technologies has made it often difficult to understand
what people in our surroundings are doing with their technology. In this paper, we introduce …

We present Project IRL (In Real Life), a suite of five mobile apps we created to explore novel
ways of supporting in-person social interactions with augmented reality. In recent years, the …

Mobile devices offer constant connectivity to the world, which can negatively affect in-person
interaction. Current approaches to minimizing the social disruption and improving the …

Users increasingly interact with a heterogeneous collection of computing devices. The
applications that users employ on those devices, however, still largely provide user …

Gestures above a mobile phone would let users interact with their devices quickly and easily
from a distance. While both researchers and smartphone manufacturers develop new …

We present Weave, a framework for developers to create cross-device wearable interaction
by scripting. Weave provides a set of high-level APIs, based on JavaScript, for developers to …

The ability to quickly interact with any nearby appliance from a mobile device would allow
people to perform a wide range of one-time tasks (eg, printing a document in an unfamiliar …

Wearable technology has been envisioned, amongst other things, to enhance face-to-face
social interaction. For example, the visibility of wearable devices to other people (eg a …

The increasing number of digital devices in our environment enriches how we interact with
digital content. Yet, cross-device information transfer--which should be a common operation …

Many activities that have traditionally been performed with different dedicated physical
artifacts are now done with personal mobile devices. Consequently, the privacy of mobile …