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ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Querying Communities in Relational Databases
— Keyword search on relational databases provides users with insights that they can not easily observe using the traditional RDBMS techniques. Here, an l-keyword query is speciï¬...
Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lijun Chang, Yufei Tao
MMS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Semantic interactive image retrieval combining visual and conceptual content description
We address the challenge of semantic gap reduction for image retrieval through an improved SVM-based active relevance feedback framework, together with a hybrid visual and concept...
Marin Ferecatu, Nozha Boujemaa, Michel Crucianu
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Breakaway: an ambient display designed to change human behavior
We present Breakaway, an ambient display that encourages people, whose job requires them to sit for long periods of time, to take breaks more frequently. Breakaway uses the inform...
Nassim Jafarinaimi, Jodi Forlizzi, Amy Hurst, John...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Stirring up experience through movement in game play: effects on engagement and social behaviour
The recent development of controllers designed around natural body movements has altered the nature of gaming and contributed towards it being marketed as a more social activity. ...
James Le Couteur, Nadia Berthouze, Siân E. L...
UIST
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Disappearing mobile devices
In this paper, we extrapolate the evolution of mobile devices in one specific direction, namely miniaturization. While we maintain the concept of a device that people are aware of...
Tao Ni, Patrick Baudisch