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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
MIR
2005
ACM
141views Multimedia» more  MIR 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
A mutual semantic endorsement approach to image retrieval and context provision
Learning semantics from annotated images to enhance content-based retrieval is an important research direction. In this paper, annotation data are assumed available for only a sub...
Jia Li
SENSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Cooperative transit tracking using smart-phones
Real-time transit tracking is gaining popularity as a means for transit agencies to improve the rider experience. However, many transit agencies lack either the funding or initiat...
Arvind Thiagarajan, James Biagioni, Tomas Gerlich,...
CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Visual structures for image browsing
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) presents several challenges and has been subject to extensive research from many domains, such as image processing or database systems. Databa...
Ricardo da Silva Torres, Celmar G. Silva, Claudia ...
SOCIALCOM
2010
14 years 7 months ago
GDC: Group Discovery Using Co-location Traces
Smart phones can collect and share Bluetooth co-location traces to identify ad hoc or semi-permanent social groups. This information, known to group members but otherwise unavailab...
Steve Mardenfeld, Daniel Boston, Susan Juan Pan, Q...