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UIST
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions
Visual information pervades our environment. Vision is used to de cide everything from what we want to eat at a restaurant and which bus route to take to whether our clothes match...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chandrika Jayant, Hanjie Ji, Gr...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Data warehousing and analytics infrastructure at facebook
Scalable analysis on large data sets has been core to the functions of a number of teams at Facebook - both engineering and nonengineering. Apart from ad hoc analysis of data and ...
Ashish Thusoo, Zheng Shao, Suresh Anthony, Dhruba ...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders
Blind and deaf-blind people often rely on public transit for everyday mobility, but using transit can be challenging for them. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 blin...
Shiri Azenkot, Sanjana Prasain, Alan Borning, Emil...
EDBT
2011
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
SeMiTri: a framework for semantic annotation of heterogeneous trajectories
GPS devices allow recording the movement track of the moving object they are attached to. This data typically consists of a stream of spatio-temporal (x,y,t) points. For applicati...
Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Christine Paren...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
CloneCloud: elastic execution between mobile device and cloud
Mobile applications are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and provide ever richer functionality on mobile devices. At the same time, such devices often enjoy strong connectivity wi...
Byung-Gon Chun, Sunghwan Ihm, Petros Maniatis, May...