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ASSETS
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Improving public transit usability for blind and deaf-blind people by connecting a braille display to a smartphone
We conducted interviews with blind and deaf-blind people to understand how they use the public transit system. In this paper, we discuss key challenges our participants faced and ...
Shiri Azenkot, Emily Fortuna
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ASSETS
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Audiowiz: nearly real-time audio transcriptions
Existing automated transcription solutions filter out environmental noises and focus only on transcribing the spoken word. This leaves deaf and hard of hearing users with no way o...
Samuel White
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Hashtag retrieval in a microblogging environment
Microblog services let users broadcast brief textual messages to people who "follow" their activity. Often these posts contain terms called hashtags, markers of a post&#...
Miles Efron
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Efficient resource allocation and power saving in multi-tiered systems
In this paper, we present Fastrack, a parameter-free algorithm for dynamic resource provisioning that uses simple statistics to promptly distill information about changes in workl...
Andrew Caniff, Lei Lu, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherka...
CANDC
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
In silico identification of the protein disulfide isomerase family from a protozoan parasite
Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) enzymes are eukaryotic oxidoreductases that catalyze the correct formation of disulfide bonds during protein folding. Structurally they are chara...
Marco A. Ramos, Rosa E. Mares, Paloma D. Maga&ntil...