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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
When designing usability questionnaires, does it hurt to be positive?
When designing questionnaires there is a tradition of including items with both positive and negative wording to minimize acquiescence and extreme response biases. Two disadvantag...
Jeff Sauro, James R. Lewis
IFIP12
2004
13 years 9 months ago
An Adaptive Assessment System to Evaluate Student Ability Level
: The experience from years of development and use, the advance of technology, and the development of authoring tools for questions and tests has resulted in a sophisticated, compu...
Antonella Carbonaro, Giorgio Casadei, Simone Riccu...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
118views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Nearly insensitive bounds on SMART scheduling
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Contravision: exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology
How can we best explore the range of users' reactions when developing future technologies that maybe controversial, such as personal healthcare systems? Our approach – Cont...
Clara Mancini, Yvonne Rogers, Arosha K. Bandara, T...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An incentive-based architecture for social recommendations
We present an incentive-based architecture for providing recommendations in a social network. We maintain a distinct reputation system for each individual and we rely on users to ...
Rajat Bhattacharjee, Ashish Goel, Konstantinos Kol...