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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 16 days ago
Fitster: social fitness information visualizer
We present Fitster, a social visualization interface that supports fitness motivation among busy people struggling to exercise. Among our pilot group of busy graduate students, we...
Noor Ali-Hasan, Diana Gavales, Andrew Peterson, Ma...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
A Performance Study of Monitoring and Information Services for Distributed Systems
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
IADIS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
A New Performance Evaluation Technique for Web Information Retrieval Systems
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
Fidel Cacheda, Francisco Puentes, Victor Carneiro
WSDM
2012
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
The early bird gets the buzz: detecting anomalies and emerging trends in information networks
In this work we propose a novel approach to anomaly detection in streaming communication data. We first build a stochastic model for the system based on temporal communication pa...
Brian Thompson