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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Tag clouds and keyword clouds: evaluating zero-interaction benefits
Tag clouds are typically presented so that users can actively utilize community-generated metadata to query a collection. This research investigates whether such keyword clouds, a...
Mathew J. Wilson, Max L. Wilson
IHI
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Using clinical preferences in argumentation about evidence from clinical trials
Medical practice is increasingly based on the best available evidence, but the volume of information requires many clinicians to rely on systematic reviews rather than the primary...
Anthony Hunter, Matthew Williams
MONET
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Shakra: Tracking and Sharing Daily Activity Levels with Unaugmented Mobile Phones
This paper explores the potential for use of an unaugmented commodity technology—the mobile phone— as a health promotion tool. We describe a prototype application that tracks t...
Ian Anderson, Julie Maitland, Scott Sherwood, Loui...
CSL
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
A study in machine learning from imbalanced data for sentence boundary detection in speech
Enriching speech recognition output with sentence boundaries improves its human readability and enables further processing by downstream language processing modules. We have const...
Yang Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mary P. Harper, Elizab...
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Investigating the usability of PDAs with ageing users
Mobile technologies have the potential to enhance the lives of ageing users, especially those who experience a decline in cognitive abilities. However, diminutive devices often pe...
Sheila Mc Carthy, Heather Sayers, Paul McKevitt
WMTE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Integrating M-technology into Web-based ESL Vocabulary Learning for Working Adult Learners
The paper reports on a small pilot study that explores the role of mobile technology (m-technology) in English as second language (ESL) vocabulary learning for working adult learn...
Yanjie Song, Robert Fox