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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Human Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Search
When foraging for information, users face a tradeoff between the accuracy and value of the acquired information and the time spent collecting it, a problem which also surfaces whe...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems
CityFlocks is a mobile system enabling visitors and new residents in a city to tap into the knowledge and experiences of local residents, so as to gather information about their n...
Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Alexander De Luca
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Interactive sonification of geo-referenced data
This paper describes an investigation of using interactive sonification (non-speech sound) to present geo-referenced statistical data to vision-impaired users for problem solving ...
Haixia Zhao
JCDL
2006
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces
This paper describes a system to support humanities scholars in their interpretation of literary work. It presents a user interface and web architecture that integrates text minin...
Catherine Plaisant, James Rose, Bei Yu, Loretta Au...
ACMDIS
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The information discovery framework
This paper continues the movement from technology centered to human centered approaches in the study of tasks that involve finding, understanding, and using information, and tools...
Andruid Kerne, Steven M. Smith