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ASSETS
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Hover or tap?: supporting pen-based menu navigation for older adults
Tablet PCs are gaining popularity, but many users, particularly older ones, still struggle with pen-based interaction. One type of error, drifting, occurs when users accidentally ...
Karyn Moffatt, Sandra Yuen, Joanna McGrenere
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Dynamic faceted search for discovery-driven analysis
We propose a dynamic faceted search system for discoverydriven analysis on data with both textual content and structured attributes. From a keyword query, we want to dynamically s...
Debabrata Dash, Jun Rao, Nimrod Megiddo, Anastasia...
CONEXT
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Is there life in Second Life?
Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
Matteo Varvello, Fabio Picconi, Christophe Diot, E...
ESA
2008
Springer
83views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
An Optimal Incremental Algorithm for Minimizing Lateness with Rejection
This paper re-examines the classical problem of minimizing maximum lateness which is defined as follows: given a collection of n jobs with processing times and due dates, in what o...
Samir Khuller, Julián Mestre
EMNLP
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld