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Alice Jane Bernheim Brush
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 71
Citations - 2836
Alice Jane Bernheim Brush is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ubiquitous computing & User interface. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 71 publications receiving 2775 citations. Previous affiliations of Alice Jane Bernheim Brush include University of Washington.
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An operating system for the home
Colin Dixon,Ratul Mahajan,Sharad Agarwal,Alice Jane Bernheim Brush,Bongshin Lee,Stefan Saroiu,Paramvir Bahl +6 more
TL;DR: HomeOS is a platform that bridges this gap by presenting users and developers with a PC-like abstraction for technology in the home by presenting network devices as peripherals with abstract interfaces, enables cross-device tasks via applications written against these interfaces, and gives users a management interface designed for the home environment.
Patent
Device arbitration for listening devices
Yaser Masood Khan,Aleksandar Uzelac,Daniel J. Hwang,Sergio Paolantonio,Jenny Kam,Vishwac Sena Kannan,II Dennis Mooney,Alice Jane Bernheim Brush +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a machine learning-based approach is used to determine a user's preferences for each device in a topology of interconnected electronic devices, so that a single device responds to voice commands.
Patent
Notification of activity around documents
TL;DR: In this article, a variety of different notification parameters can be set by the user, allowing him or her to request the type(s) of notifications he or she would like to receive, as well as how frequently notifications are to be received.
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Exploring the relationship between personal and public annotations
TL;DR: A study to characterize and compare students' personal annotations as they read assigned papers with those they shared with each other using an online system confirmed three hypotheses: only a small fraction of annotations made while reading are directly related to those shared in discussion, and some types of annotations are more apt to be the basis of public commentary than other types.
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Revisiting Whittaker & Sidner's "email overload" ten years later
TL;DR: A sample of 600 mailboxes collected at a high-tech company is examined to compare how users organize their email now to 1996, finding little evidence of distinct strategies for handling email.