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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
sMash: semantic-based mashup navigation for data API network
With the proliferation of data APIs, it is not uncommon that users who have no clear ideas about data APIs will encounter difficulties to build Mashups to satisfy their requiremen...
Bin Lu, Zhaohui Wu, Yuan Ni, Guo Tong Xie, Chunyin...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Ontology Maturing: a Collaborative Web 2.0 Approach to Ontology Engineering
Most of the current methodologies for building ontologies rely on specialized knowledge engineers. This is in contrast to real-world settings, where the need for maintenance of do...
Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Walter, G&a...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Reduced empathizing skills increase challenges for user-centered design
User-Centered Design is surprisingly difficult. One of the biggest issues, certainly for those with no HCI or usability experience, is a lack of appreciation of how users think an...
William Hudson
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth
ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamically adapting GUIs to diverse input devices
Many of today’s desktop applications are designed for use with a pointing device and keyboard. Someone with a disability, or in a unique environment, may not be able to use one ...
Scott Carter, Amy Hurst, Jennifer Mankoff, Jack Li