One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
The goal of our work is to help users make more informed choices about what physical activities they undertake. One example is to provide relevant information to help someone choo...
Adrienne H. Andrew, Yaw Anokwa, Karl Koscher, Jona...
We study a new task, proactive information retrieval by combining implicit relevance feedback and collaborative filtering. We have constructed a controlled experimental setting, ...
—Recent feasibility studies involving children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) interacting with socially assistive robots have shown that children can have both positive and...
We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the purp...