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2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Schelling behavior for improving data accessibility in mobile peer-to-peer networks
In 1969, Thomas Schelling proposed one of the most cited models in economics to explain how similar people (e.g. people with the same race, education, community) group together in...
Long Vu, Klara Nahrstedt, Matthias Hollick
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Projecting tension in virtual environments through lighting
Interactive synthetic environments are currently used in a wide variety of applications, including video games, exposure therapy, education, and training. Their success in such do...
Magy Seif El-Nasr
JCDL
2006
ACM
143views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Categorizing web search results into meaningful and stable categories using fast-feature techniques
When search results against digital libraries and web resources have limited metadata, augmenting them with meaningful and stable category information can enable better overviews ...
Bill Kules, Jack Kustanowitz, Ben Shneiderman
JCDL
2006
ACM
151views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Tagging of name records for genealogical data browsing
In this paper we present a method of parsing unstructured textual records briefly describing a person and their direct relatives, which we use in the construction of a browsing t...
Mike Perrow, David Barber
JCDL
2006
ACM
159views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
EcoPod: a mobile tool for community based biodiversity collection building
Biological studies rely heavily on large collections of species observations. All of these collections cannot be compiled by biology professionals alone. Skilled amateurs can assi...
YuanYuan Yu, Jeannie A. Stamberger, Aswath Manohar...