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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
How was your day? An Affective Companion ECA Prototype
This paper presents a dialogue system in the form of an ECA that acts as a sociable and emotionally intelligent companion for the user. The system dialogue is not task-driven but ...
Marc Cavazza, Raul Santos de la Camara, Markku Tur...
NAACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Utility Evaluation of Cross-document Information Extraction
We describe a utility evaluation to determine whether cross-document information extraction (IE) techniques measurably improve user performance in news summary writing. Two groups...
Heng Ji, Zheng Chen, Jonathan Feldman, Antonio Gon...
MDAI
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Rational Privacy Disclosure in Social Networks
Social networking web sites or social networks for short (SNs) have become an important web service with a broad range of applications. In an SN, a user publishes and shares inform...
Josep Domingo-Ferrer
IWEC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Investigating the Affective Quality of Motion in User Interfaces to Improve User Experience
This study focuses on motion in user interfaces as a design element which can contribute to an improved user experience of digital media entertainment. The design for user experien...
Doyun Park, Ji-Hyun Lee
IOT
2010
13 years 11 months ago
DEHEMS: A user-driven domestic energy monitoring system
Persuasive energy monitoring technology has the potential to inspire sustainable energy lifestyles within the home. However, to effect positive ecological behaviour change, a more ...
Vasughi Sundramoorthy, Qi Liu, Grahame Cooper, Nig...
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
User-Based Active Learning
Active learning has been proven a reliable strategy to reduce manual efforts in training data labeling. Such strategies incorporate the user as oracle: the classifier selects the m...
Christin Seifert, Michael Granitzer
ICAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
An Efficient Sequential Covering Algorithm for Explaining Subsets of Data
Given a subset of data that differs from the rest, a user often wants an explanation as to why this is the case. For instance, in a database of flights, a user may want to understa...
Matthew Michelson, Sofus A. Macskassy
ACMSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Mobile web search personalization using ontological user profile
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
ACL
2010
13 years 11 months ago
An Active Learning Approach to Finding Related Terms
We present a novel system that helps nonexperts find sets of similar words. The user begins by specifying one or more seed words. The system then iteratively suggests a series of ...
David Vickrey, Oscar Kipersztok, Daphne Koller
WCNC
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Cell Selection Algorithm Based on Competition of Users in Hierarchical Cellular Networks
—One of the important issues in hierarchical cellular networks is to assign a user to a proper cell. If the user is located in the overlapping area of a macrocell and a microcell...
Jung-Min Moon, Dong-Ho Cho