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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, Akihito Tokuda
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
CGO
2004
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
A Compiler Scheme for Reusing Intermediate Computation Results
Recent research has shown that programs often exhibit value locality. Such locality occurs when a code segment, although executed repeatedly in the program, takes only a small num...
Yonghua Ding, Zhiyuan Li
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Searching Video for Complex Activities with Finite State Models
We describe a method of representing human activities that allows a collection of motions to be queried without examples, using a simple and effective query language. Our approach...
Nazli Ikizler, David A. Forsyth
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Better vocabularies for assistive communication aids: connecting terms using semantic networks and untrained annotators
The difficulties of navigating vocabulary in an assistive communication device are exacerbated for individuals with lexical access disorders like those due to aphasia. We present ...
Sonya S. Nikolova, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Christia...