GPUs have recently evolved into very fast parallel co-processors capable of executing general purpose computations extremely efficiently. At the same time, multi-core CPUs evolutio...
153 views159 votes15 years 6 months ago CIKM 2009»
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
With current disciplinary structures and academic priorities, Human– Computer Interaction faces ongoing challenges: is it a discipline in its own right, or simply a sub-disciplin...
237 views151 votes15 years 3 months ago ICCBR 2010»
Product recommendation systems are now a key part of many e-commerce services and have proven to be a successful way to help users navigate complex product spaces. In this paper, w...
Abstract. To inform the design of interactive drama systems, we investigate the experience of an interactor being part of a story that they can have a fundamental influence on. Im...
118 views134 votes15 years 11 months ago IPPS 2009»
In this paper we use Dijkstra’s algorithm as a challenging, hard to parallelize paradigm to test the efficacy of several parallelization techniques in a multicore architecture....
High quality user experience (UX) has become a central competitive factor of product development in mature consumer markets. Although the term UX is widely used, the methods and t...
207 views133 votes15 years 3 months ago ICIDS 2010»
The author summarizes his experience creating a story-based simulation from raw documentary footage taken in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The use of Propp’s typ...
241 views127 votes15 years 10 months ago ADS 2004»
With COSIMAB2B we demonstrate a prototype of a complex and visionary e-procurement application. The embodied character agent named COSIMA is able to respect a customer's prefe...
We present a new result concerning the parallelisation of DBSCAN, a Data Mining algorithm for density-based spatial clustering. The overall structure of DBSCAN has been mapped to a...