This report assumes that an operator's console constitutes a third form of memory in addition to that integral, to the human and that integral to the machine which is not directly accessible to the human. Questions are raised concerning the characteristic modes of human storage and retrieval of information from internal memory when such external memory is accessible. The report also introduces ...

People search is one major search activity on the Web. If the list of people search results is merely “person 1, person 2, . . . and so on,” users have difficulty determining which person clusters they should select. In this paper, we present a project that summarizes and visualizes Web people search results to help users select person clusters more easily. We explore three ways of summarizing ...

I provide a personal view of some of the major research challenges in the area of combinatorial search. These include solving and playing games with chance, hidden information, and multiple players, optimally solving larger instances of well-known single-agent toy problems, applying search techniques to more realistic problem domains, analyzing the time complexity of heuristic search algorithms...

Search personalization that considers the social dimension of the web has attracted a significant volume of research in recent years. A user profile is usually needed to represent a user’s interests in order to tailor future searches. Previous research has typically constructed a profile solely from a user’s usage information. When the user has only limited activities in the system, the effect ...

We propose a design and implementation for a music information database and query system, the MusicDB, which can be used for Music Information Retrieval (MIR). The MusicDB is implemented as a Java package, and is loaded in MaxMSP using the mxj external. The MusicDB contains a music analysis module, capable of extracting musical information from standard MIDI files, and a search engine. The sear...

Introduction. Few studies document the information searching behaviour of users with cognitive impairments. This paper therefore addresses the effect of dyslexia on information searching in a database with no tolerance for spelling errors and no query-building aids. The purpose was to identify effective search interface design guidelines that benefit dyslexic users. Method. Twenty dyslexic stud...