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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
What to do when search fails: finding information by association
Sometimes people cannot remember the names or locations of things on their computer, but they can remember what other things are associated with them. We created Feldspar, the fir...
Duen Horng Chau, Brad A. Myers, Andrew Faulring
USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search
As the scope of personal data grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to find what we need when we need it. Desktop search tools provide a potential answer, but most existing too...
Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, B...
TRANSCI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
An Information-Theoretic Sensor Location Model for Traffic Origin-Destination Demand Estimation Applications
To design a transportation sensor network, the decision-maker needs to determine what sensor investments should be made, as well as when, how, where and with what technologies. Th...
Xuesong Zhou, George F. List
TOCHI
2010
90views more  TOCHI 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Potential for personalization
Current Web search tools do a good job of retrieving documents that satisfy the wide range of intentions that people associate with a query – but do not do a very good job of di...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Heuristics for Ordering Cue Search in Decision Making
Simple lexicographic decision heuristics that consider cues one at a time in a particular order and stop searching for cues as soon as a decision can be made have been shown to be...
Peter M. Todd, Anja Dieckmann