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ESWS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Edward Thomas
IE
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A physical three-way interactive game based on table tennis
Physical leisure activities such as table tennis provide healthy exercise and can offer a means to connect with others socially; however, players have to be in the same physical l...
Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Trust no one: a decentralized matching service for privacy in location based services
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
Sharad Jaiswal, Animesh Nandi
HICSS
2008
IEEE
215views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Harry Potter and the Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools
This paper is a report on early user activity in Many Eyes, a public web site where users may upload data, create visualizations, and carry on discussions. Since the site launched...
Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Matt...
WEBI
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Geographical Life of Search
This article describes a geographical study on the usage of a search engine, focusing on the traffic details at the level of countries and continents. The main objective is to un...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Christian Middleton, Carlo...