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LOCA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SocialMotion: Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building
In this paper we present an approach to analyzing the social behaviors that occur in a typical office space. We describe a system consisting of over 200 motion sensors connected ...
Christopher Richard Wren, Yuri A. Ivanov, Ishwinde...
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An empirical framework for designing social products
Designers generally agree that understanding the context of use is important in designing products. However, technologically advanced products such as personal robots engender com...
Bilge Mutlu
MM
2009
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Distance metric learning from uncertain side information with application to automated photo tagging
Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
PERSUASIVE
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Design Dimensions Enabling Divergent Behaviour across Physical, Digital, and Social Library Interfaces
What design dimensions across physical, digital, and social library interfaces may enable and trigger users to find more information resources than planned or known in advance? The...
Lennart Björneborn
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe