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iStuff: Searching For The Great Unified Input Theory

What will be the equivalent of mouse and keyboard, windows and icons--the ubiquitous components of the GUI in the post-desktop era? To explore this question, we have developed a toolkit and framework called iStuff that facilitates experimentation with multiple technologies, modalities, and metaphors for user interfaces in a ubicomp environment. Our domain is explicit interaction with a room siz...

Crosswalks, Metadata Harvesting, Federated Searching, Metasearching: Using Metadata to Connect Users and Information

Since the turn of the millennium, instantaneous access to a wide variety of content via the Web has ceased to be considered “bleeding-edge technology” and instead has become expected. In fact, from 2000 to the time of this writing, there has been continued exponential growth in the number of digital projects providing online access to a range of information resources: Web pages, full-text artic...

Arpeggio: Metadata Searching and Content Sharing with Chord

Arpeggio is a peer-to-peer file-sharing network based on the Chord lookup primitive. Queries for data whose metadata matches a certain criterion are performed efficiently by using a distributed keywordset index, augmented with index-side filtering. We introduce index gateways, a technique for minimizing index maintenance overhead. Because file data is large, Arpeggio employs subrings to track l...

Interactive file searching using file metadata and visualization

Navigation and browsing on a computer system are usually done using the file system hierarchy. However, this is not the most adequate method to search or locate a given file at a later time, unless we know exactly where it is. In this paper, we present a new approach for interactive file search•ing, which takes advantage of the (implicit) metadata asso•ciated to files. With this information we ...

Searching Cross-Language Metadata with Automatically Structured Queries