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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Usability of voting systems: baseline data for paper, punch cards, and lever machines
In the United States, computer-based voting machines are rapidly replacing other older technologies. While there is potential for this to be a usability improvement, particularly ...
Michael D. Byrne, Kristen K. Greene, Sarah P. Ever...
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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Time is of the essence: an evaluation of temporal compression algorithms
Although speech is a potentially rich information source, a major barrier to exploiting speech archives is the lack of useful tools for efficiently accessing lengthy speech record...
Simon Tucker, Steve Whittaker
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Use of mobile appointment scheduling devices
One hundred thirty-eight subjects participated in a study on mobile appointment scheduling. Subjects completed a questionnaire on their primary method of managing appointments whe...
Thad Starner, Cornelis M. Snoeck, Benjamin A. Wong...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
74views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Online B-tree Merging
Many scenarios involve merging of two B-tree indexes, both covering the same key range. Increasing demand for continuous availability and high performance requires that such mergi...
Xiaowei Sun, Rui Wang 0002, Betty Salzberg, Chendo...
EDBT
2006
ACM
136views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Optimizing Monitoring Queries over Distributed Data
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
Frank Neven, Dieter Van de Craen