How much history of the dialogue should a chat client include? Some chat clients have minimized the dialogue history to deploy the space for other purposes. A theory of conversati...
Darren Gergle, David R. Millen, Robert E. Kraut, S...
We present a technique for evaluating the usability and effectiveness of ambient displays. Ambient displays are and aesthetic peripheral displays portraying non-critical informati...
Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Gary Hsieh, Julie ...
A cracked database is a datastore continuously reorganized based on operations being executed. For each query, the data of interest is physically reclustered to speed-up future ac...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Data quality is a critical problem in modern databases. Data entry forms present the first and arguably best opportunity for detecting and mitigating errors, but there has been li...
Kuang Chen, Harr Chen, Neil Conway, Joseph M. Hell...
The Voronoi diagram is an important technique for answering nearest-neighbor queries for spatial databases. In this paper, we study how the Voronoi diagram can be used on uncertain...
Reynold Cheng, Xike Xie, Man Lung Yiu, Jinchuan Ch...