Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
: In this paper we present the affective message box, a dialog box that employs a real time head gesture recognition system as its input modality. Head nods and shakes correspond t...
The perception of a virtual environment depends on the user and the task the user is currently performing in that environment. Models of the human visual system can thus be exploi...
Veronica Sundstedt, Alan Chalmers, Kirsten Cater, ...
We explore the phenomena of subjective randomness as a case study in understanding how people discover structure embedded in noise. We present a rational account of randomness per...
Current trends suggest future software systems will rely on service-discovery protocols to combine and recombine distributed services dynamically in reaction to changing condition...
Christopher Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills, Andrew L. R...