In disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the tsunami in Japan, people used social media to ask for help or report injuries. The popularity, efficiency, and ease of use of s...
Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Shamanth Kumar, Jose Augusto ...
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...
The WWW makes learning materials widely accessible and provides an environment where people can learn across time and space. However, the simple read-only information structure on...
Contact management is an important part of everyday work. People exchange business cards to try to enter each other’s contact lists. Local businesses provide refrigerator magnet...
■ People often make shortsighted decisions to receive small benefits in the present rather than large benefits in the future, that is, to favor their current selves over their f...
Jason P. Mitchell, Jessica Schirmer, Daniel L. Ame...