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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
The Impact of Query Refinement in the Web People Search Task
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó...
SIGDOC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Why don't people read the manual?
Few users of computer applications seek help from the documentation. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of why this is so and examines how, in real work, users s...
David G. Novick, Karen Ward
APVIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
How people read sociograms: a questionnaire study
Visualizing social network data into sociograms plays an important role in communicating information about network characteristics. Previous studies have shown that human percepti...
Weidong Huang, Seok-Hee Hong, Peter Eades
HICSS
2010
IEEE
146views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Who's Right and Who Writes: People, Profiles, Contacts, and Replies in Online Dating
In this analysis of profiles and messaging behavior on a major online dating service, we find that, consistent with predictions of evolutionary psychology, women as compared to me...
Andrew T. Fiore, Lindsay Shaw Taylor, Xiaomeng Zho...
JMM2
2006
212views more  JMM2 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
K-means Tracker: A General Algorithm for Tracking People
Abstract-- In this paper, we present a clustering-based tracking algorithm for tracking people (e.g. hand, head, eyeball, body, and lips). It is always a challenging task to track ...
Chunsheng Hua, Haiyuan Wu, Qian Chen, Toshikazu Wa...