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AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability
While zoomable user interfaces can improve the usability of applications by easing data access, a drawback is that some users tend to become lost after they have zoomed in. Previo...
Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Navigation in degree of interest trees
We present an experiment that compares how people perform search tasks in a degree-of-interest browser and in a Windows-Explorer-like browser. Our results show that, whereas users...
Raluca Budiu, Peter Pirolli, Michael Fleetwood
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Fluid DTMouse: better mouse support for touch-based interactions
Although computer mice have evolved physically (i.e., new form factors, multiple buttons, scrollwheels), their basic metaphor remains the same: a single-point of interaction, with...
Alan Esenther, Kathy Ryall
AVI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
History Unwired: mobile narrative in historic cities
History Unwired (HU, see http://web.mit.edu/frontiers) is a multi-year investigation of the narrative uses of mobile technology in historic cities. In 2004-2005 a team of research...
Michael Epstein, Silvia Vergani
APCCM
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Postmodern prospects for conceptual modelling
A number of recent developments in software engineering -- from agile methods to aspect-oriented programming to design patterns to good enough software -- share a number of common...
James Noble, Robert Biddle
BXML
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Subject Identification in Topic Maps in Theory and Practice
: If Topic Maps should be exchanged in distributed environments a common semantic problem occurs: Do two Topics refer to the same Subject? If they describe the same Subject the giv...
Lutz Maicher
BXML
2004
13 years 9 months ago
AMACONT: A System Architecture for Adaptive Multimedia Web Applications
Abstract: Engineering personalized ubiquitous Web applications requires to develop adaptable Web content as well as to automatically adjust it to varying client devices and dynamic...
Michael Hinz, Zoltán Fiala
BXML
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Query Reformulation for the XML standards XPath, XQuery and XSLT
: Whenever transformation of data is used to bridge the gap of different data formats, and a query is given in the destination format, query reformulation can speed up the transfor...
Sven Groppe, Stefan Böttcher
BXML
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Metaschema Layering for XML
: The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is based on the concept of schema languages, which are used for validation of XML documents. In most cases, the metamodeling view of XML-base...
Erik Wilde