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Active, a Tool for Building Intelligent User Interfaces

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Computers have become affordable, small, omnipresent and are often connected to the Internet. However, despite the availability of such rich environment, user interfaces have not been adapted to fully leverage its potential. To help with complex tasks, a n ...

ACTA Press2007

A comparison of two compound critiquing systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang

Compound critiques allow users to simultaneously express directional preferences over several product attributes. Presenting the user with compound critiques is not a new idea. The original Find-Me Systems (e.g., Car Navigator) showed static compound criti ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007

Microcamera Embedded in a Wristwatch

Pierre-André Farine, Steve Tanner, Michael Ansorge, Patrick Stadelmann

The presentation reports upon the conception and realization of a miniature very low-power microcamera system that has been embedded in a wristwatch so as to enable the spontaneous capture of photographs in everyday life based on timekeeping devices the us ...

2007

Bayesian Controller for a Novel Semi-Autonomous Navigation Concept

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Roland Siegwart, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Xavier Perrin

This paper presents a novel concept of semi-autonomous navigation where a mobile robot evolves autonomously under the monitoring of a human user. The user provides corrective commands to the robot whenever he disagrees with the robot's navigational choices ...

IDIAP2007

Modeling Human-Agent Interaction with Active Ontologies

Charles Baur

As computer systems continue to grow in power and access more networked content and services, we believe there will be an increasing need to provide more user-centric systems that act as intelligent assistants, able to interact naturally with human users a ...

2007

An Accountability Interface for the Internet

Olga Irzak

The Internet provides no information on the fate of transmitted packets, and end systems cannot determine who is responsible for dropping or delaying their traffic. As a result, they cannot verify that their ISPs are honoring their service level agreements ...

2007

Hybrid critiquing-based recommender systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

We propose a novel critiquing-based recommender interface, the hybrid critiquing interface that integrates the user self-motivated critiquing facility to compensate for the limitations of system-proposed critiques. The results from our user study show that ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007

Overview of JPSearch: a Standard for Image Search and Retrieval

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Michael Ansorge

In this paper, we review the on-going JPSearch standardization activity. Its goal is to provide a standard for interoperability for image search and retrieval systems. More specifically, JPSearch aims at defining the interfaces and protocols for data excha ...

2007

User Technology Adoption Issues in Recommender Systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Nicolas Jones

Two music recommender websites, Pandora (a content-based recommender) and Last.fm (a rating-based social recommender), were compared side-by-side in a within-subject user study involving 64 participants. The main objective was to investigate users’ initial ...

2007

Ontology filtering

Vincent Jean Fabrice Schickel

With the ever growing importance of internet, people are becoming overwhelmed by information. More concretely, consider a situation where you find yourself with an evening alone and would like to rent a DVD to watch. For several reasons, this is a difficul ...

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