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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Comparing the use of tangible and graphical programming languages for informal science education
Much of the work done in the field of tangible interaction has focused on creating tools for learning; however, in many cases, little evidence has been provided that tangible inte...
Michael S. Horn, Erin Treacy Solovey, R. Jordan Cr...
DEXAW
1999
IEEE
103views Database» more  DEXAW 1999»
15 years 4 months ago
Applying Temporal Databases to Geographical Data Analysis
This paper reports an experience in which a temporal database was used to analyze the results of a survey on human behaviors and displacements in a ski resort. This survey was par...
Marie-Christine Fauvet, S. Chardonnel, Marlon Duma...
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen
85
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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Contravision: exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology
How can we best explore the range of users' reactions when developing future technologies that maybe controversial, such as personal healthcare systems? Our approach – Cont...
Clara Mancini, Yvonne Rogers, Arosha K. Bandara, T...
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IWINAC
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Design of Social Agents
Abstract. Social behavior, as compared to the egoistic and rational behavior, is known to be more beneficial to groups of subjects and even to individual members of a group. For t...
Roman Gorbunov, Emilia I. Barakova, Matthias Raute...