User studies and information architecture. Sponsored by SIG USE, SIG IA

User Interface eXtensible Markup Language SIG

A User Interface Description Language (UIDL) is a formal language used in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in order to describe a particular user interface independently of any implementation. Considerable research effort has been devoted to defining various meta-models in order to rigorously define the semantics of such a UIDL. These meta-models cover different aspects: context of use (user, p...

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Many fascinating new developments in the area bowed stringed instruments have been developed in recent years. However, the majority of these new applications are either not well known, used or considered in a broader context by their target users. The necessary exchange between the world of developers and the players is rather limited. A group of performers, researchers, instrument developers a...

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's Sense-Making and the methodological resuscitation of the user -- looking backwards, looking forward Sponsored by SIG/USE and SIG/HFIS

Network Biology SIG 2011 Abstracts

Anand, Praveen – “Proteome-wide binding site network analysis of M. tuberculosis” (Panel) Nagasuma Chandra and Praveen Anand. Indian Institute of Science, India. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causative agent of tuberculosis claims 4700 lives everyday. Special traits of the bacteria such as dormancy, ability to quickly take-over immunocompromised hosts and resistance adds to the complexity of the ...

Novelty Track at IRIT-SIG

IRIT developed a new strategy in order to detect the relevant sentences that we did not try in a more general context of document retrieval but did try previously and partially in document categorization. In our approach a sentence is considered as relevant if it matches the topic with a certain level of coverage. This level of coverage depends on the category of the terms used in the texts. Th...