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CORR
2010
Springer
105views Education» more  CORR 2010»
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
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Biasing response in Fitts' Law tasks
Fitts' law, relating the time to acquire a target to the target size and the distance from the target, is an effective and widely used predictor of performance in feedback co...
Emory Al-Imam, Edward Lank
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
132views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Integrating tradeoff support in product search tools for e-commerce sites
In a previously reported user study, we found that users were able to perform decision tradeoff tasks more efficiently and commit considerably fewer errors with the example critiq...
Pearl Pu, Li Chen
EDBT
2010
ACM
206views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient computation of trade-off skylines
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Christoph Lofi, Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf-Tilo Bal...
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
CrowdSearch: exploiting crowds for accurate real-time image search on mobile phones
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly sophisticated with a rich set of on-board sensors and ubiquitous wireless connectivity. However, the ability to fully exploit the sensing c...
Tingxin Yan, Vikas Kumar, Deepak Ganesan