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H4Plock: Supporting Mobile User Authentication through Gestural Input and Tactile Output
(CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory, 2015-07-22)We have developed a novel authentication mechanism, H4Plock (pronounced “Hap-lock”), that leverages gestural input and tactile feedback to defend against casual observation attacks. Users enter up to four on-screen gestures ... -
HappyFeet: Challenges in Building an Automated Dance Recognition and Assessment Tool
(ACM, 2018-09)In this paper, we discuss our experience in building an automated dance assessment tool with IMU and IoT devices and highlight the major challenges of such an endeavor. In a typical dance classroom scenario, where the ... -
“Hour of Code”: A Case Study
(ISCAP, 2018-02)This study investigates the delivery of the hour of code tutorials to students via an ethnographic study of college students. The college students who participated in this study were surveyed about their opinion of the ... -
How accessible is the process of web interface design?
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2013-10)This paper describes a data gathering study, examining the experiences and day-to-day challenges faced by blind web interface developers when designing sites and online applications. Findings have revealed that considerable ... -
How Do We Talk Ourselves Into These Things? Challenges with Adoption of Biometric Authentication for Expert and Non-Expert Users
(ACM, 2018)Biometric authentication offers promise for mobile security, but its adoption can be controversial, both from a usability and security perspective. We describe a preliminary study, comparing recollections of biometric ... -
How the Semantic Web is Being Used:An Analysis of FOAF Documents
(2005-01-03)Semantic Web researchers have initially focused on the representation, development and use of ontologies but paid less attention to the social and structural relationships involved. The past year has seen a dramatic increase ... -
Hybrid Causality Analysis of ENSO’s Global Impacts on Climate Variables Based on Data-Driven Analytics and Climate Model Simulation
(Frontiers, 2019-09-18)Numerous studies have indicated that El Niño and the southern oscillation (ENSO) could have determinant impacts on remote weather and climate using the conventional correlation-based methods, which however, cannot identify ... -
Hybrid Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Source Systems
The use of artificial intelligence in clinical care to improve decision support systems is increasing. This is not surprising since by its very nature, the practice of medicine consists of making decisions based on ... -
Hypertext to Knowledge to Workflow
The engineering hypothesis is that a hypertext-like, collaborative authoring system can provide an appropriate infrastructure for a knowledge and workflow management system. A hierarchical, hypertext infrastructure with ... -
Hypertext: from Text to Expertext
Efforts to exploit technology so as to add extra dimensions to text have occurred throughout history, but the electronic computer has opened new vistas. The modern history of hypertext begins with the text `As We May Think' ... -
Ideas Illuminated at 2018 Light City
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IDIOMS: Infectious Disease Imaging Outbreak Monitoring System
(ACM, 2020-11)In this commentary, we propose a framework for convergence accelerator research leveraging AI models with medical images for effective diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of diseases with pandemic potential. The goal is ... -
Improving Topic Model Stability for Effective Document Exploration
Topic modeling has become a ubiquitous topic analysis tool for text exploration. Most of the existing works on topic modeling focus on fitting topic models to input data. They however ignore an important usability issue ... -
Inconsistency Investigation between Online Review Content and Ratings
(AIS, 2018-08-16)Despite the tremendous role of online consumer reviews (OCRs) in facilitating consumer purchase decision making, the potential inconsistency between product ratings and review content could cause the uncertainty and ... -
Individual Effects of a Web-Based Accountability System In a Teacher Education Program
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-03-03)This paper describes the results of teacher education candidates’ use of a Web-based assessment system including electronic portfolios. A teacher education program adopted a novel Web-based Accountability Model for assessment ... -
An Integrated Knowledge Graph to Automate GDPR and PCI DSS Compliance
(IEEE, 2018-12-11)Big data analytics related to consumer behavior, market analysis, opinions, and recommendation often deal with end user's derived and inferred data, along with the observed data. To ensure consumer data protection, rules ... -
Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment
(2010-04-07)Virtualized Service models are now emerging and rede-fining the way information technology is delivered to end users. Current research is focused on specific pieces like service discovery, composition etc. There is no ...