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2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Make new friends, but keep the old: recommending people on social networking sites
This paper studies people recommendations designed to help users find known, offline contacts and discover new friends on social networking sites. We evaluated four recommender al...
Jilin Chen, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, Michael J. ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Learning how: the search for craft knowledge on the internet
Communicating the subtleties of a craft technique, like putting a zipper into a garment or throwing a clay pot, can be challenging even when working side by side. Yet HowTo conten...
Cristen Torrey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, David W. M...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Intentions: a game for classifying search query intent
Knowing the intent of a search query allows for more intelligent ways of retrieving relevant search results. Most of the recent work on automatic detection of query intent uses su...
Edith Law, Anton Mityagin, David Maxwell Chickerin...
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Fixing the program my computer learned: barriers for end users, challenges for the machine
The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it mat...
Todd Kulesza, Weng-Keen Wong, Simone Stumpf, Steph...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
It's not easy being green: understanding home computer power management
Although domestic computer use is increasing, most efforts to reduce energy use through improved power management have focused on computers in the workplace. We studied 20 househo...
Marshini Chetty, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Brian Meyer...