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2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game
Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem ...
Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran L...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts
We address the problem of collecting a database of "common-sense facts" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that i...
Luis von Ahn, Mihir Kedia, Manuel Blum
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 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
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Support for activity-based computing in a personal computing operating system
Research has shown that computers are notoriously bad at supporting the management of parallel activities and interruptions, and that mobility increases the severity and scope of ...
Jakob E. Bardram, Jonathan Bunde-Pedersen, Mads S&...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management occurs when someone who is working on a single project stores and retrieves information items relating to that...
Ofer Bergman, Ruth Beyth-Marom, Rafi Nachmias