David Dearman
David A. Dearman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Nokia Research Center
955 Page Mill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
United States
Tel: +1.650.823.9478
Fax: +1.650.739.0779
Curriculum Vitae (Dec 2011)

Conference Papers (Peer reviewed and in the main proceedings)

[C.20]
Dearman, D. and Truong, K.N. (2012) - to appear
Exploring the implicit acquisition of second language vocabulary using a Live Wallpaper. CHI '12: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Austin, Texas, USA, May 5 - 10, 2012). ACM, New York, NY. [23% acceptance]
[C.19]
Dearman, D., Guy, T.R. and Truong, K.N. (2012) - to appear
Determining the orientation of proximate mobile devices using their backside facing camera. CHI '12: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Austin, Texas, USA, May 5 - 10, 2012). ACM, New York, NY. [23% acceptance]
[C.18]
Sohn, T., Lee, L., Zhang, S., Dearman, D. and Truong, K.N. (2012) - to appear
An examination of how households share and coordinate the completion of errands. CSCW '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Seattle, Washington, USA, February 11 - 15, 2012). ACM, New York, NY.
[C.17]
Banovic, N., Li, F.C.Y, Dearman, D., Yatani, K. and Truong, K.N. (2011)
Design of unimanual multi-finger pie menu interaction. ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (Kobe, Japan, November 13 - 16, 2011). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 120-129. [33% acceptance]
[C.16]
Dearman, D., Sohn, T. and Truong, K.N. (2011)
Opportunities exist: continuous discovery of places to perform activities. CHI '11: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7 - 13, 2011). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 2429-2438. [26% acceptance]
[C.15]
Li, F.C., Dearman, D. and Truong, K.N. (2010)
Leveraging proprioception to make mobile phones more accessible to users with visual impairments. ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Orlando, FL, USA, October 25 - 27, 2010). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 187-194. [31% acceptance]
[C.14]
Scott, J., Dearman, D., Yatani, K. and Truong, K.N. (2010)
Sensing foot gestures from the pocket. UIST '10: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (New York NY, USA, October 3 - 6, 2010). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 199-208. [18% acceptance]
[C.13]
Dearman, D. and Truong, K.N. (2010)
Identifying the activities supported by locations with community-authored content. Ubicomp '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26 - 29, 2010). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 23-32. [19% acceptance]
[C.12]
Ho, J.T., Dearman, D and Truong, K.N. (2010)
Improving user's security choices on home wireless networks. SOUPS '10: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (Redmond, WA, USA, July 14 - 16, 2010). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 1-12. [25% acceptance]
[C.11]
Dearman, D., Karlson, A., Bederson, B. and Meyers, B. (2010)
Multi-modal selection during text entry on mobile devices. GI '10: Proceedings of the 36th Graphics International Conference (Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2010). ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, Vol. 324. Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 19-26. 33% acceptance]
[C.10]
Dearman, D. and Truong, K.N. (2010)
Why users of Yahoo! Answers do not answer questions. CHI '10: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, GA, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 329-332. [12% acceptance]
[C.9]
Dearman, D. and Truong, K.N. (2009)
BlueTone: a framework for interacting with public displays using dual-tone multi-frequency through bluetooth. Ubicomp '09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Orlando, FL, USA, September 30 - October 03, 2009). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 97-100. [12% acceptance]
[C.8]
Li, F.C., Dearman, D., and Truong, K.N. (2009)
Virtual shelves: interactions with orientation aware devices. UIST '09: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 04 - 07, 2009). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 125-128. [18% acceptance]
[C.7]
Dearman, D., Kellar, M., and Truong, K.N. (2008)
An examination of daily information needs and sharing opportunities. CSCW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (San Diego, CA, USA, November 08 - 12, 2008). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 679-688. [23% acceptance]
[C.6]
Dearman, D. and Pierce, J.S. (2008)
"It's on my other computer!": computing with multiple devices. CHI '08: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 767-776. [22% acceptance]
[C.5]
Dearman, D., Varshavsky, A., De Lara, E., and Truong, K.N. (2007)
An exploration of location error estimation. Ubicomp '07: Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Innsbruck, Austria, September 16 - 19, 2007). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 181-198. [19% acceptance]
[C.4]
Dearman, D., Inkpen, K.M., and Truong, K.N. (2007)
Target selection on mobile devices using display segmentation. MobileHCI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Human Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Singapore, September 09 - 12, 2007). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 371-374. [22% acceptance]
[C.3]
Reilly, D., Dearman, D., Ha, V., Smith, I., Inkpen, K.M. (2006)
"Need to Know": examining information need in location discourse. Pervasive '06: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Dublin, Ireland, May 07-10, 2006). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33-49. [13% acceptance]
[C.2]
MacKay, B., Dearman, D., Inkpen, K.M., and Watters, C. (2005)
Walk 'n scroll: a comparison of software-based navigation techniques for different levels of mobility. MobileHCI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices & Services (Salzburg, Austria, September 19 - 22, 2005). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 183-190. [25% acceptance]
[C.1]
Dearman, D., Cox, A. and Fisher, M. (2005)
Adding control-flow to a visual data-flow representation. IWPC '05: Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (Louis, MO, USA, May 15 - 16, 2005). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 297-306. [40% acceptance]

Journal Articles (Peer reviewed)

[J.5]
Massimi, M., Truong, K.N., Dearman, D. and Hayes, G.R. (2010)
Understanding recording technologies in everyday life. IEEE Pervasive Computing 9, 3 (July-September 2010), pp. 64-71.
[J.4]
Dearman, D., Inkpen, K.M. and Truong, K.N. (2010)
Mobile map interaction during a rendezvous: exploring the implications for automation. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 14, 1 (January 2010), pp. 1-13.
[J.3]
Inkpen, K.M., Dearman, D., Argue, R., Comeau, M., Fu, C., Kolli, S., Moses, J., Pilon, N. and Wallace, J. (2006)
Left handed scrolling for pen-based devices. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 21, 1 (2006), pp. 91-108.
[J.2]
Reilly, D., Dearman, D. and Inkpen, K.M. (2005)
Evaluating early prototypes in context: trade-offs, challenges and successes. IEEE Pervasive Computing 4, 4 (October-December 2005), pp. 42-50.
[J.1]
Dearman, D., Hawkey, K. and Inkpen, K.M. (2005)
Rendezvousing with location-aware devices: enhancing social coordination. Interacting with Computers 17, 5 (2005), 542-566.

Conference Extended Abstracts (Peer reviewed and in adjunct proceedings)

[c.2]
Dearman, D., Hawkey, K., and Inkpen, K.M. (2005)
Effect of location-awareness on rendezvous behaviour. CHI '05: In Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 1929-1932. [25% acceptance]
[c.1]
Kellar, M., Reilly. D., Hawkey, K., Rodgers, M., MacKay, B., Dearman, D., Ha, V., MacInnes, J.W., Nunes, M., Parker, J.K., Whalen, T. and Inkpen, K.M. (2005)
It's a jungle out there: practical considerations for evaluation in the city. CHI '05: In Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). ACM, New York, NY, pp. 1533-1536. [25% acceptance]

Workshop Papers

[W.4]
Dearman, D. (2006)
That doesn't tell me what I want!. CHI '06: Workshop of Mobile Social Software (Montreal, QC, Canada, April 24 - 27, 2006).
[W.3]
Dearman, D., Hawkey, K. and Inkpen, K.M. (2005)
Impact of location awareness on rendezvous behaviour and communication. LoCA '05: The 1st International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, May 12 - 13, 2005). [39% acceptance]
[W.2]
Dearman, D., and Hawkey, K. (2005)
Exploring the behavioral effect of location awareness within the social context of rendezvousing. CHI '05: Workshop on Social Implications of Ubiquitous Computing at CHI 2005 (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005).
[W.1]
Dearman, D. (2004)
Let's rendezvous: application of location-aware computing.
Ubicomp '04: Workshop on Applications of Location-Aware Computing at Ubicomp 2004 (Nottingham, England, UK, September 07 - 11, 2004).

Thesis

[T.2]
Dearman, D. (2011)
Using community authored content to identify place-specific activities. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada). Supervisor Dr. Khai N. Truong.
[T.1]
Dearman, D. (2006)
Location awareness: exploring social coordination. MCSc Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada). Supervisor Dr. Kori Inkpen.