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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Can machines call people?: user experience while answering telephone calls initiated by machine
Current state-of?the-art spoken dialog systems are aimed at handling telephone calls to automate incoming caller requests. In this paper we explore a scenario which is symmetric t...
Adam J. Sporka, Jakub Franc, Giuseppe Riccardi
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Experiences of participatory sensing in the wild
We present two studies of participatory sensing in the wild, in which groups of young people used sensors to collect environmental data along with contextual information such as p...
Mark Paxton, Steve Benford
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Docile avatars: aesthetics, experience, and sexual interaction in Second Life
Second Life, a participant-created multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), gained sudden media acclaim in 2006. Prior to that, the world was developing many of the characteristics ...
Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Recrawl scheduling based on information longevity
It is crucial for a web crawler to distinguish between ephemeral and persistent content. Ephemeral content (e.g., quote of the day) is usually not worth crawling, because by the t...
Christopher Olston, Sandeep Pandey
CCR
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Minimizing energy consumptions in wireless sensor networks via two-modal transmission
We present a sophisticated framework to systematically explore the temporal correlation in environmental monitoring wireless sensor networks. The presented framework optimizes los...
Yao Liang, Wei Peng