Web usage mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover usage patterns from Web data, in order to understand and better serve the needs of Web-based applications. Web usage mining consists of three phases, namely preprocessing, pattern discovery, and pattern analysis. This paper describes each of these phases in detail. Given its application potential, Web usage mining has seen a rapid increase in interest, from both the research and practice communities. This paper provides a detailed taxonomy of the work in this area, including research efforts as well as commercial offerings. An up-to-date survey of the existing work is also provided. Finally, a brief overview of the WebSIFT system as an example of a prototypical Web usage mining system is given.

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Web usage mining: discovery and applications of usage patterns from Web data

A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one- dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.

Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics

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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide provides users with VCR-like control over programs that are played back from the media servers and over real-time cached copies of the programs. The program guide also provides users with an opportunity to designate gift recipients for whom programs may be recorded.

Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording

This is a review of the proprioceptive senses generated as a result of our own actions. They include the senses of position and movement of our limbs and trunk, the sense of effort, the sense of force, and the sense of heaviness. Receptors involved in proprioception are located in skin, muscles, and joints. Information about limb position and movement is not generated by individual receptors, but by populations of afferents. Afferent signals generated during a movement are processed to code for endpoint position of a limb. The afferent input is referred to a central body map to determine the location of the limbs in space. Experimental phantom limbs, produced by blocking peripheral nerves, have shown that motor areas in the brain are able to generate conscious sensations of limb displacement and movement in the absence of any sensory input. In the normal limb tendon organs and possibly also muscle spindles contribute to the senses of force and heaviness. Exercise can disturb proprioception, and this has implications for musculoskeletal injuries. Proprioceptive senses, particularly of limb position and movement, deteriorate with age and are associated with an increased risk of falls in the elderly. The more recent information available on proprioception has given a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying these senses as well as providing new insight into a range of clinical conditions.

The Proprioceptive Senses: Their Roles in Signaling Body Shape, Body Position and Movement, and Muscle Force

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for changing functions of an electronic device according to physical relation (for example, distance) between the electronic device and a main user (for example, an owner) of the electronic device.SOLUTION: A device can measure distance by being carried by a main user, or using a radio signal from an auxiliary device associated with the main user. In a part of embodiment, the electronic device can change functions of the electronic device based on environment of the electronic device by being combined with the distance between the electronic device and the main user. An environmental factor can include: a position of the device, speed of the device, date and time.

Control of device by closeness of user

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for improving ability for interacting with the electronic document of a user. SOLUTION: The system displaying the images of a virtual three-dimensional book 5 having one or more virtual pages has a display system that can execute a display program. The images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the display system. A clip operation for clipping the virtual page from the virtual three-dimensional book is included. The clip operation can include selecting and dragging operation or the system may include a moving picture showing that the virtual page moves from the virtual three-dimensional book. The clip operation is realized and the virtual page which is slid-out as well as virtual three-dimensional book, are displayed.

System for displaying picture of virtual three- dimensional book

A system for application-independent time-critical rendering

This chapter describes the ongoing process by which a multidisciplinary group at NASA's Ames Research Center is designing and implementing a large interactive work surface called the MERBoard Collaborative Workspace. A MERBoard system involves several distributed, large, touch-enabled, plasma display systems with custom MERBoard software. A centralized server and database back the system. We are continually tuning MERBoard to support over two hundred scientists and engineers during the surface operations of the Mars Exploration Rover Missions. These scientists and engineers come from various disciplines and are working both in small and large groups over a span of space and time. We describe the multidisciplinary, human-centered process by which this h4ERBoard system is being designed, the usage patterns and social interactions that we have observed, and issues we are currently facing.

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NASA's MERBoard: An Interactive Collaborative Workspace Platform

In general, techniques and systems for selecting a read rate for short-range communication with a computing device are described In one example, a method includes detecting, by a computing device, a trigger event The method may also include, responsive to the detection of the trigger event, changing a near-field communication (NFC) read rate from a first read rate to a second read rate by multiplying the first read rate by a predetermined value The method may also include generating, by the computing device, NFC signals at the second read rate In some examples, the trigger event may include an acceleration or velocity of the computing device exceeding a threshold, detecting the computing device within a predetermined geographical location, or detecting an ambient light intensity exceeding a threshold

Rich Gossweiler

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Control of device by closeness of user

System for displaying picture of virtual three- dimensional book

A system for application-independent time-critical rendering

NASA's MERBoard: An Interactive Collaborative Workspace Platform

Variable read rates for short-range communication