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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Low-infrastructure methods to improve internet access for mobile users in emerging regions
As information technology supports more aspects of modern life, digital access has become an important tool for developing regions to lift themselves from poverty. Though broadban...
Sibren Isaacman, Margaret Martonosi
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Improving relevance judgment of web search results with image excerpts
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
Zhiwei Li, Shuming Shi, Lei Zhang
KDD
2009
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Mining rich session context to improve web search
User browsing information, particularly their non-search related activity, reveals important contextual information on the preferences and the intent of web users. In this paper, ...
Guangyu Zhu, Gilad Mishne
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
MOBICOM
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Choosing beacon periods to improve response times for wireless HTTP clients
The IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard power-saving mode (PSM) allows the network interface card (NIC) to periodically sleep between receiving data. In this paper, we show that 802...
Suman Nath, Zachary R. Anderson, Srinivasan Seshan