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AVI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Navigation in degree of interest trees
We present an experiment that compares how people perform search tasks in a degree-of-interest browser and in a Windows-Explorer-like browser. Our results show that, whereas users...
Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Michael Fleetwood
WCRE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Retrieving Task-Related Clusters from Change History
During software maintenance tasks, developers often spend an important amount of effort investigating source code. This effort can be reduced if tools are available to help develo...
Martin P. Robillard, Barthélémy Dage...
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Why do programmers avoid metrics?
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman
UIST
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Disappearing mobile devices
In this paper, we extrapolate the evolution of mobile devices in one specific direction, namely miniaturization. While we maintain the concept of a device that people are aware of...
Tao Ni, Patrick Baudisch
AC
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Biometric Gait Recognition
Psychological studies indicate that people have a small but statistically significant ability to recognize the gaits of individuals that they know. Recently, there has been much i...
Jeffrey E. Boyd, James J. Little