Future Concepts division- publications

This paper provides a high-level overview of the field of usability evaluation as context for a panel - Systematization, Modeling and Quantitative Evaluation of Human Interface- in which several authors…

This paper proposes the design of a task force workspace, which is under development.

Study participants working independently on a sensemaking task who had access to a set of expert annotations were compared against participants using SparTag.us without those annotations and participants using only…

This paper uncovers issues in the design of camera-based technologies to support retail shopping in a physical store, specifically clothes shopping.

We have designed and developed a tool to assist users in sanitizing sensitive content.

This paper describes some of the ways in which operators acquire and formulate information in terms of locating the patient and navigating the dispatched ambulance members.

In this paper, we consider an alternative approach of finding a representative subset of the pareto set utilizing the belief distribution of the tradeoffs between objective functions (e.g., plan makespan…

We used automated data mining techniques to examine the real-world use of access control features present in standard document sharing systems in a corporate environment over a long (> 10…

In this paper we outline a new architecture for modeling the interaction between syntax and prosody.

In this paper, we propose a method to integrate diagnosis with plan assessment to prevent plan failure, and to gain diagnostic information when needed.

We describe the knowledge representation and reasoning required to replace the expert, so as to automatically generate labeled training examples, select features, and learn the required concept.

We address this shortcoming by developing a framework for user-initiated learning (UIL), where the end user can define new learning tasks, after which the system automatically generates a learning component,…