How Do Users Map Points Between Dissimilar Shapes?

Correspondences between Salient Points on 3D Shapes

Establishing correspondences between salient points on 3D shapes results in a function mapping similar parts of 3D objects. In this paper, we present a new method for establishing binary correspondences between salient points on 3D shapes. Our algorithm is independent of the shape representation and the object topology. It does not require any prepositioning of the objects. Our method first det...

How Do Product Users Influence Corporate Invention?

The extensive academic literature on innovation has long recognized product users as a potentially important source of ideas. While prior work has primarily focused on understanding the unique motivations and knowledge that allow users to generate their own innovations, we extend existing theory to investigate the contribution of users to corporate invention. We draw on the knowledge-based view...

How Do Users Search and Discover?

Object Recognition in Flight: How Do Bees Distinguish between 3D Shapes?

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) discriminate multiple object features such as colour, pattern and 2D shape, but it remains unknown whether and how bees recover three-dimensional shape. Here we show that bees can recognize objects by their three-dimensional form, whereby they employ an active strategy to uncover the depth profiles. We trained individual, free flying honeybees to collect sugar water f...

How Do Open Source Developers Talk about Users?

When open source software developers are making design decisions, how do they talk about users? To begin to answer this question, 100 contentious Firefox bug reports were analyzed for distinct uses of the word “user.” The results show that developers use authoritative words (such as allow, educate, and require) to describe what software does for users. Most statements involved confident specula...