Three pointing devices (mouse, touch pad, touch screen) were evaluated for usability with a WindowsTM-style menu selection task while in a moving off-road environment. A pilot study determined which commercially available devices had the potential to promote good performance in the environment. Eighteen subjects performed a series of complex pointing tasks that simulated the use of a standard a...

Alongside their NATO allies German troops are facing a growing insurgency in Afghanistan. However, the alliance still lacks a joint strategy to deal with this challenge. While the US government recently called on NATO to pursue a “classical” counterinsurgency campaign, Germany insisted on the development of a more “comprehensive strategy” before the next Summit in Bucharest in April 2008. Yet, ...

The CHI 2008 workshop on sensemaking was the second of its kind. Another workshop on sensemaking was held at CHI 2005. (A position paper by this author and a co-worker was also accepted for that workshop). (See http://dmrussell.googlepages.com/sensemakingworkshoppapers for the actual papers and Appendix A for the titles and corresponding author of these papers). We spent the morning and the fir...