Browsing by Author "Furuta, Richard"

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    • AIDING MODERN TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP USING A VIRTUAL HINMAN COLLATOR 
      Kejriwal, Gaurav (2014-03-28)
      Collation is an important step in textual criticism and is most often an arduous task for most scholars involved in scholarly edition. Finding variations is important for researchers in bibliography and book history as ...
    • Analysis of Twitter Hashtags' Geographic Propagation 
      Ibrahim Abdelhalim, Ashraf A. (2016-01-04)
      The goal of this work is to study the geographic propagation patterns of Twitters' hashtags. In order to analyze the hashtags' diffusion patterns, we look at the globe as a graph consists of a large grid of locations and ...
    • Ancient ships of Japan 
      Miyashita, Hiroaki (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      Ancient ships of Japan, which are little known outside of Japan, are presented based on the studies of past researchers, as well as a comprehensive analysis of archaeological remains. The process of development from logboats ...
    • Arcaching: Using Augmented Reality on Mobile Devices to Improve Geocachers’ Experiences 
      Villaneuva Luna, Nahum (2017-05-08)
      Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game that uses GPS and mobile devices to assist players in the quest of finding a geocache — a cleverly hidden physical container with a log and other items inside. The current ...
    • Assessment of OCR Quality and Font Identification in Historical Documents 
      Gupta, Anshul (2015-08-05)
      Mass digitization of historical documents is a challenging problem for optical character recognition (OCR) tools. Issues include noisy backgrounds and faded text due to aging, border/marginal noise, bleed-through, skewing, ...
    • Asynchronous and Synchronous Communications’ Effect on User Engagement in Prediction Games 
      Junnutula, Meghanath Reddy (2015-07-30)
      Fantasy sports, a medium that engrosses millions of players around the world, increases the player’s expertise and understanding about the domain of the sport. Prediction games, based on the gameplay model of fantasy sports, ...
    • Audio browsing of automaton-based hypertext 
      Ustun, Selen (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      With the wide-spread adoption of hypermedia systems and the World Wide Web (WWW) in particular, these systems have evolved from simple systems with only textual content to those that incorporate a large content base, which ...
    • Authoring Large and Complex Hypertext with Reusable Components 
      Park, Yung Ah (2011-10-21)
      caT, a Petri net-based hypertext system, supports the modeling of user characteristics, contextual information, as well as the policies that govern the operation of a digital library within the infrastructure that presents ...
    • The bovine QTL viewer: a web accessible database of bovine Quantitative Trait Loci 
      Polineni, Pavana; Aragonda, Prathyusha; Xavier, Suresh R; Furuta, Richard; Adelson, David L (BMC Bioinformatics, 2006)
    • Categorizing Age Group by Sketching Ability 
      Thomas, Xien Ehimiyen (2020-05-19)
      From an early age, children begin developing critical motor control skills that will be used for the rest of their lives. While everyday activities like standing or walking require gross motor control, fine motor control ...
    • Challenges and Techniques for Personal Environment Management 
      Zacchi, Anna 1967- (2011-10-22)
      People today use the computer for many simultaneous work projects and activities. The traditional file system was developed for storing and retrieving files and it and the desktop have not evolved with users' practices. ...
    • Collaborative Authoring of Walden's Paths 
      Li, Yuanling (2012-10-19)
      The World Wide Web contains rich collections of digital materials that can be used in education and learning settings. The collaborative authoring prototype of Walden's Paths targets two groups of users: educators and ...
    • A Collation Tool for Humanists 
      Olivieri, Ryan (2014-02-03)
      Comparing a set of similar texts, often called collation, gives a scholar insight into the author's thoughts and motives and into the culture of the time period. Multiple editions can be published by an author for a diverse ...
    • Collection understanding 
      Chang, Michelle T. (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      Collection understanding shifts the traditional focus of retrieval in large collections from locating specific artifacts to gaining a comprehensive view of the collection. Visualization tools are critical to the process ...
    • Combating User Misbehavior on Social Media 
      Cao, Cheng (2017-12-08)
      Social media encourages user participation and facilitates user’s self-expression like never before. While enriching user behavior in a spectrum of means, many social media platforms have become breeding grounds for user ...
    • Combining Metadata, Inferred Similarity of Content, and Human Interpretation for Managing and Listening to Music Collections 
      Meintanis, Konstantinos A. (2011-10-21)
      Music services, media players and managers provide support for content classification and access based on filtering metadata values, statistics of access and user ratings. This approach fails to capture characteristics of ...
    • Community-Oriented Models and Applications for the Social Web 
      Kashoob, Said Masoud Ali (2012-07-16)
      The past few years have seen the rapid rise of all things "social" on the web from the growth of online social networks like Facebook, to user-contributed content sites like Flickr and YouTube, to social bookmarking ...
    • A Comparison of Clustering Methods for Developing Models of User Interest 
      Ganta, Prasanth (2012-07-16)
      For open-ended information tasks, users must sift through many potentially relevant documents assessing and prioritizing them based on relevance to current information need, a practice we refer to as document triage. Users ...
    • Comparison of edit history clustering techniques for spatial hypertext 
      Mandal, Bikash (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)
      History mechanisms available in hypertext systems allow access to past user interactions with the system. This helps users evaluate past work and learn from past activity. It also allows systems identify usage patterns and ...
    • A component-based collaboration infrastructure 
      Yang, Yi (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)
      Groupware applications allow geographically distributed users to collaborate on shared tasks. However, it is widely recognized that groupware applications are expensive to build due to coordination services and group ...