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CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Investigating the effectiveness of tactile feedback for mobile touchscreens
This paper presents a study of finger-based text entry for mobile devices with touchscreens. Many devices are now coming to market that have no physical keyboards (the Apple iPhon...
Eve E. Hoggan, Stephen A. Brewster, Jody Johnston
EDBT
2008
ACM
160views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
136views Database» more  DASFAA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
The Effect of Data Quality Tag Values and Usable Data Quality Tags on Decision-Making
Prior research has shown that supplying decision-makers with data quality (DQ) tags, metadata about the quality of data used in decision-making, can impact decision outcomes in cer...
Rosanne Price, Graeme G. Shanks
MCAM
2007
Springer
112views Multimedia» more  MCAM 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
SIEVE - Search Images Effectively Through Visual Elimination
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu