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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Identifying enrichment candidates in textbooks
Many textbooks written in emerging countries lack clear and adequate coverage of important concepts. We propose a technological solution for algorithmically identifying those sect...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan...
CIKM
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Exploiting hierarchical tags for context-awareness
Context-awareness for information retrieval is challenging problem as information about the users current situation is rarely available. If such information would be available, re...
Alan Said, Jérôme Kunegis, Ernesto Wi...
AUGHUMAN
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Weight illusion by tangential deformation of forearm skin
When we perform exercise or undergo rehabilitation, it is helpful to be supported by another person. To get this support, we normally take hold of a person’s arm, and pull it. I...
Yuki Kuniyasu, Shogo Fukushima, Masahiro Furukawa,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A picture is worth a thousand search results: finding child-oriented multimedia results with collAge
We present a simple and effective approach to complement search results for children's web queries with child-oriented multimedia results, such as coloring pages and music sh...
Karl Gyllstrom, Marie-Francine Moens
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Designing for photolurking
This paper describes our early work on design and development to support photolurking. Photolurking is browsing and looking at people’s photographs without participating in disc...
Haliyana Khalid, Alan J. Dix
IUI
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Speech and sketching for multimodal design
While sketches are commonly and effectively used in the early stages of design, some information is far more easily conveyed verbally than by sketching. In response, we have combi...
Aaron Adler, Randall Davis
SIGDOC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Information fragments for a pervasive world
Is the second paragraph dead? Technology and users are tending to create and consume information in ever decreasing chunks, forcing content creators to create shorter fragments of...
Russell Beale
IUI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Conventions in human-human multi-threaded dialogues: a preliminary study
In this paper, we explore the conventions that people use in managing multiple dialogue threads. In particular, we focus on where in a thread people interrupt when switching to an...
Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang, Andrew L. Kun, Alexande...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using semantic web approach in augmented audio reality system for museum visitors
In this paper, we describe our work in progress on the reasoning module of ec(h)o, an augmented audio-reality interface for museum visitors utilizing spatialized soundscapes and a...
Leila Kalantari, Marek Hatala, Jordan Willms