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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Optimal audio-visual representations for illiterate users of computers
We present research leading toward an understanding of the optimal audio-visual representation for illustrating concepts for illiterate and semi-literate users of computers. In ou...
Indrani Medhi, Archana Prasad, Kentaro Toyama
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Examining the content and privacy of web browsing incidental information
This research examines the privacy comfort levels of participants if others can view traces of their web browsing activity. During a week-long field study, participants used an el...
Kirstie Hawkey, Kori M. Inkpen
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Time-dependent semantic similarity measure of queries using historical click-through data
It has become a promising direction to measure similarity of Web search queries by mining the increasing amount of clickthrough data logged by Web search engines, which record the...
Qiankun Zhao, Steven C. H. Hoi, Tie-Yan Liu, Soura...
ECOOP
2009
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Failboxes: Provably Safe Exception Handling
The primary goal of exception mechanisms is to help ensure that when an operation fails, code that depends on the operation's successful completion is not executed (a property...
Bart Jacobs 0002, Frank Piessens
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Safe open-nested transactions through ownership
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Kunal Agrawal, I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha