Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos ? both in desktop and mobile environments ? despite the many potential uses for annotations, including...
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Automatic capture technology could enable students to record and index much information—both digital and nondigital—with little extra effort. Can this technology be designed t...
In this paper, we study how a sensor-rich world can be exploited by digital recording devices such as cameras and camcorders to improve a user’s ability to search through a larg...
This work presents the use of click graphs in improving query intent classifiers, which are critical if vertical search and general-purpose search services are to be offered in a ...