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2010
15 years 4 months ago
Discovering users' topics of interest on twitter: a first look
Twitter, a micro-blogging service, provides users with a framework for writing brief, often-noisy postings about their lives. These posts are called "Tweets." In this pa...
Matthew Michelson, Sofus A. Macskassy
OZCHI
2006
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Using a scenario-planning tool to support an engaging online user experience
This paper describes a pilot project to research the use of a dynamic visual interface as the basis of a scenarioplanning tool. We introduce ‘flow’ as a theoretical framework ...
Jon M. Pearce, John Murphy, David Patman
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluating the Potential of Explicit Phrases for Retrieval Quality
This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and s...
Andreas Broschart, Klaus Berberich, Ralf Schenkel
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas
MHCI
2009
Springer
16 years 27 days ago
Improving the recommendation of mobile services by interpreting the user's icon arrangement
The aether soon will be pervaded with a high density of digital services for usage on mobile phones. Personalization plays a crucial role for the success and acceptance of such sy...
Matthias Böhmer, Gernot Bauer