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COMGEO
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Implementing a Bayesian approach to criminal geographic profiling
The geographic profiling problem is to create an operationally useful estimate of the location of the home base of a serial criminal from the known locations of the offense sites....
Mike O'Leary
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Patterns of empathy in online communication
This article presents an investigation of empathy within an online community for older people (SeniorNet). Qualitative content analysis of 400 messages from a discussion board abo...
Ulrike Pfeil, Panayiotis Zaphiris
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Acceptance and usability of a relational agent interface by urban older adults
This study examines the acceptance and usability of an animated conversational agent designed to establish longterm relationships with older, mostly minority adult users living in...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lisa Caruso, Kerri Clough-Gor...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Hug over a distance
People in close relationships, who are separated by distance, often have difficulty expressing intimacy adequately. Based on the results of an ethnographic study with couples, a p...
Florian Mueller, Frank Vetere, Martin R. Gibbs, Je...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
For over a century, citizen scientists have volunteered to collect huge quantities of data for professional scientists to analyze. We designed Pathfinder, an online environment th...
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aar...