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EICS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An empirical comparison of "wiimote" gun attachments for pointing tasks
We evaluated and compared four input methods using the Nintendo Wii Remote for pointing tasks. The methods used (i) the "A" button on top of the device, (ii) the "B...
Victoria McArthur, Steven J. Castellucci, I. Scott...
GECCO
2008
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Aiming for a theoretically tractable CSA variant by means of empirical investigations
Evolution Strategies (ES) for black-box optimization of a function f : Rn → R are investigated. Namely, we consider the cumulative step-size adaptation (CSA) for the variance of...
Jens Jägersküpper, Mike Preuss
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Agent Competence on User Performance and Perception
We studied the role of the competence of an interface agent that helped users to learn and use a text editor. Participants in the study made a set of changes to a document with th...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring potential usability gaps when switching mobile phones: an empirical study
The present study explores potential usability gaps when users switch from a familiar to an unfamiliar mobile phone interface. A within-subject experiment was performed in which n...
Aiko Fallas Yamashita, Wolmet Barendregt, Morten F...
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette