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CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Women go with the (optical) flow
Previous research reported interesting gender effects involving specific benefits for females navigating with wider fields of view on large displays. However, it was not clear wha...
Desney S. Tan, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...
STOC
2006
ACM
130views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 4 months ago
On the fourier tails of bounded functions over the discrete cube
In this paper we consider bounded real-valued functions over the discrete cube, f : {-1, 1}n [-1, 1]. Such functions arise naturally in theoretical computer science, combinatorics...
Irit Dinur, Ehud Friedgut, Guy Kindler, Ryan O'Don...
SDM
2009
SIAM
138views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
ShatterPlots: Fast Tools for Mining Large Graphs.
Graphs appear in several settings, like social networks, recommendation systems, computer communication networks, gene/protein biological networks, among others. A deep, recurring...
Ana Paula Appel, Andrew Tomkins, Christos Faloutso...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Mobile-izing health workers in rural India
Researchers have long been interested in the potential of ICTs to enable positive change in developing regions communities. In these environments, ICT interventions often fail bec...
Divya Ramachandran, John Canny, Prabhu Dutta Das, ...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FoSS) community
CT This paper presents results from a study examining perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FOSS) community. 27 individuals associated with 11 di...
Michael Terry, Matthew Kay, Ben Lafreniere