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ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
TeddIR: tangible information retrieval for children
Despite several efforts to make search engines more childfriendly, children still have trouble using systems that require keyboard input. We present TeddIR: a system using a tangi...
Michel Jansen, Wim Bos, Paul E. van der Vet, Theo ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...
CIKM
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Intelligent Caching: Selecting, Representing, and Reusing Data in an Information Server
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Yigal Arens, Craig A. Knoblock
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Query by tapping system based on alignment algorithm
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...
Pierre Hanna, Matthias Robine
IUI
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Task aware information access for diagnosis of manufacturing problems
Pinpoint is a promising first step towards using a rich model of task context in proactive and dynamic IR systems. Pinpoint allows a user to navigate decision tree representations...
Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Irava...