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INTERACT
2003
13 years 9 months ago
What Makes a Good Answer? The Role of Context in Question Answering
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Understanding why we preserve some things and discard others in the context of interaction design
This paper takes up the problem of understanding why we preserve some things passionately and discard others without thought. We briefly report on the theoretical literature relat...
William Odom, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman, Eli B...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The computational geowiki: what, why, and how
Google Maps and its spin-offs are highly successful, but they have a major limitation: users see only pictures of geographic data. These data are inaccessible except by limited ve...
Reid Priedhorsky, Loren G. Terveen
EICS
2010
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Self-explanatory user interfaces by model-driven engineering
Modern User Interfaces (UI) must deal with the increasing complexity of applications as well as new features such as the capacity of UIs to be dynamically adapted to the context o...
Alfonso García Frey
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Vagueness Facilitates Search
This paper addresses the question why language is vague. A novel answer to this question is proposed, which complements other answers suggested in the literature. It claims that va...
Kees van Deemter