While recommender systems tell users what items they might like, explanations of recommendations reveal why they might like them. Explanations provide many benefits, from improvi...
Most studies of plans and situated work have applied ethnographic methods and and thus fail to provide any quantitative insight into the extent of this phenomenon. We present a st...
A useful approach for enabling computers to automatically create new content is utilizing the text, media, and information already present on the World Wide Web. The newly created...
Lisa M. Gandy, Nathan D. Nichols, Kristian J. Hamm...
This paper presents a method for prototyping grasp-sensitive surfaces using optical fibers. In this system one end of a fiber bundle is attached to an image sensor. The other en...
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...