SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper presents a dialogue system in the form of an ECA that acts as a sociable and emotionally intelligent companion for the user. The system dialogue is not task-driven but ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We describe a utility evaluation to determine whether cross-document information extraction (IE) techniques measurably improve user performance in news summary writing. Two groups...
MDAI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Social networking web sites or social networks for short (SNs) have become an important web service with a broad range of applications. In an SN, a user publishes and shares inform...
IWEC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This study focuses on motion in user interfaces as a design element which can contribute to an improved user experience of digital media entertainment. The design for user experien...
IOT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Persuasive energy monitoring technology has the potential to inspire sustainable energy lifestyles within the home. However, to effect positive ecological behaviour change, a more ...
ICDM
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Active learning has been proven a reliable strategy to reduce manual efforts in training data labeling. Such strategies incorporate the user as oracle: the classifier selects the m...
ICAI
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Given a subset of data that differs from the rest, a user often wants an explanation as to why this is the case. For instance, in a database of flights, a user may want to understa...
ACMSE
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a novel system that helps nonexperts find sets of similar words. The user begins by specifying one or more seed words. The system then iteratively suggests a series of ...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—One of the important issues in hierarchical cellular networks is to assign a user to a proper cell. If the user is located in the overlapping area of a macrocell and a microcell...