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IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Context restoration in multi-tasking dialogue
In this paper we conduct an exploratory experiment on context restoration in multi-tasking dialogue and report our preliminary findings. We examine a corpus of human-human dialog...
Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
User-oriented document summarization through vision-based eye-tracking
We propose a new document summarization algorithm which is personalized. The key idea is to rely on the attention (reading) time of individual users spent on single words in a doc...
Songhua Xu, Hao Jiang, Francis C. M. Lau
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Rich interfaces for reading news on the web
Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to endusers for both understanding the context of news events and navigat...
Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kennet...
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tagsplanations: explaining recommendations using tags
While recommender systems tell users what items they might like, explanations of recommendations reveal why they might like them. Explanations provide many benefits, from improvi...
Jesse Vig, Shilad Sen, John Riedl
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Parakeet: a demonstration of speech recognition on a mobile touch-screen device
We demonstrate Parakeet – a continuous speech recognition system for mobile touch-screen devices. Parakeet’s interface is designed to make correcting errors easy on a handheld...
Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Parakeet: a continuous speech recognition system for mobile touch-screen devices
We present Parakeet, a system for continuous speech recognition on mobile touch-screen devices. The design of Parakeet was guided by computational experiments and validated by a u...
Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Have a say over what you see: evaluating interactive compression techniques
We all encounter many documents on a daily basis that we do not have time to process in their entirety. Nevertheless, we lack good tools to rapidly skim and identify key informati...
Simon Tucker, Steve Whittaker
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Detecting and correcting user activity switches: algorithms and interfaces
The TaskTracer system allows knowledge workers to define a set of activities that characterize their desktop work. It then associates with each user-defined activity the set of ...
Jianqiang Shen, Jed Irvine, Xinlong Bao, Michael G...
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An interface for targeted collection of common sense knowledge using a mixture model
We present a game-based interface for acquiring common sense knowledge. In addition to being interactive and entertaining, our interface guides the knowledge acquisition process t...
Robert Speer, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Catherine Hava...
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
From geek to sleek: integrating task learning tools to support end users in real-world applications
Numerous techniques exist to help users automate repetitive tasks; however, none of these methods fully support enduser creation, use, and modification of the learned tasks. We pr...
Aaron Spaulding, Jim Blythe, Will Haines, Melinda ...