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SPATIALCOGNITION
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Some Ways that Maps and Diagrams Communicate
Since ancient times, people have devised cognitive artifacts to extend memory and ease information processing. Among them are graphics, which use elements and the spatial relations...
Barbara Tversky
WEBDB
2009
Springer
104views Database» more  WEBDB 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Entity Search with NECESSITY
Loosely structured heterogeneous information spaces are typically created by merging data from a variety of different applications and information sources. A common problem these...
Ekaterini Ioannou, Saket Sathe, Nicolas Bonvin, An...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Learning how: the search for craft knowledge on the internet
Communicating the subtleties of a craft technique, like putting a zipper into a garment or throwing a clay pot, can be challenging even when working side by side. Yet HowTo conten...
Cristen Torrey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, David W. M...
IROS
2007
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
16 years 22 days ago
Decomposition of line segments into corner and statistical grown line features in an EKF-SLAM framework
Abstract— Robots are emerging from industrial plants toward every people’s daily life. Thus, navigation in and understanding of human related environments becomes a prerequisit...
Christian Pascal Connette, Oliver Meister, Martin ...