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Richard Harper

Researcher at Lancaster University

Publications -  201
Citations -  9409

Richard Harper is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer-supported cooperative work & Mobile phone. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 200 publications receiving 8972 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Harper include University of Surrey & National Health Service.

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Rethinking the "Smart" Home

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that people imbue their homes with intelligence by continually weaving together things in their physical worlds with their everyday routines and distinct social arrangements, and that intelligence emerges from our interactions with these surfaces, seen in the thoughtful placement of things throughout the home's ecology of surfaces.
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Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: 5th International Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006, Proceedings

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach for human perception-based image quality assessment based on human perception using a real-time monitoring system for TV commercials using video features.
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Information Retrieval System User Interface

TL;DR: In this paper, a user interface for an information retrieval system is described, and an output region for showing retrieved documents is displayed on an interactive surface, where one or more movable user interface items, such as digital buttons or tangible objects, may be positioned in an active region.
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Information retrieval using time

TL;DR: In this article, a web-crawler creates time objects which are composites of content of different media types obtained from potentially different sources and are about the same date or date range.
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The Metaphysics of Communications Overload

TL;DR: It is proposed that such acts are best conceived of as moral, as related to the performative consequences of the acts in question, and what applicability phrases like ‘overload’ might have, and whether quantitative techniques have a role other than as a heuristic in understanding and designing tools for the control of communication overload between people.