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BEHAVIOURIT
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
A study on tolerable waiting time: how long are Web users willing to wait?
Web users often face a long waiting time for downloading Web pages. Although various technologies and techniques have been implemented to alleviate the situation and to comfort th...
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Human Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Search
When foraging for information, users face a tradeoff between the accuracy and value of the acquired information and the time spent collecting it, a problem which also surfaces whe...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Harvesting Collective Intelligence: Temporal Behavior in Yahoo Answers
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically ...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
MTA
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
STIMO: STIll and MOving video storyboard for the web scenario
In the current Web scenario a video browsing tool that produces on-the-fly storyboards is more and more a need. Video summary techniques can be helpful but, due to their long proc...
Marco Furini, Filippo Geraci, Manuela Montangero, ...
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Prefetching the Means for Document Transfer: A New Approach for Reducing Web Latency
User-perceived latency is recognized as the central performance problem in the Web. We systematically measure factors contributing to this latency, across several locations. Our s...
Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan