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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Where are you pointing?: the accuracy of deictic pointing in CVEs
Deictic reference – pointing at things during conversation – is ubiquitous in human communication, and should also be an important tool in distributed collaborative virtual en...
Nelson Wong, Carl Gutwin
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Peekaboom: a game for locating objects in images
We introduce Peekaboom, an entertaining web-based game that can help computers locate objects in images. People play the game because of its entertainment value, and as a side eff...
Luis von Ahn, Ruoran Liu, Manuel Blum
WEBI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
WSC
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Case study in modeling and simulation validation methodology
The military develops simulations to analyze nearly every aspect of defense. How accurate are these simulations and to what extent do they produce dependable results? Most guidanc...
Scott D. Simpkins, Eugene P. Paulo, Lyn R. Whitake...
MIDDLEWARE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
dFault: Fault Localization in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
Pawan Prakash, Ramana Rao Kompella, Venugopalan Ra...