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ACMIDC
2010
15 years 10 months ago
TeddIR: tangible information retrieval for children
Despite several efforts to make search engines more childfriendly, children still have trouble using systems that require keyboard input. We present TeddIR: a system using a tangi...
Michel Jansen, Wim Bos, Paul E. van der Vet, Theo ...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...
CIKM
1994
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Intelligent Caching: Selecting, Representing, and Reusing Data in an Information Server
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Yigal Arens, Craig A. Knoblock
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Query by tapping system based on alignment algorithm
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...
Pierre Hanna, Matthias Robine
IUI
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Task aware information access for diagnosis of manufacturing problems
Pinpoint is a promising first step towards using a rich model of task context in proactive and dynamic IR systems. Pinpoint allows a user to navigate decision tree representations...
Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Irava...