This paper sums up lessons learned from a sequence of cooperative design workshops where end users were enabled to design mobile systems through scenario building, role playing, a...
The complexity of many problems necessitates creating and exploring multiple, alternative solutions. However, current user interfaces do not cleanly support creating alternatives ...
Michael A. Terry, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Kumiyo Naka...
Enabling keyword queries over relational databases (KQDB) benefits a large population of users who have difficulty in understanding the database schema or using SQLs. However, sin...
Autocompletion is a useful feature when a user is doing a look up from a table of records. With every letter being typed, autocompletion displays strings that are present in the t...
The storage manager of a general-purpose database system can retain consistent disk page level snapshots and run application programs "back-in-time" against long-lived p...