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ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques
Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the prevalence of touch screens and have prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are st...
Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jacob O. Wobbroc...
MOBICOM
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting medium access diversity in rate adaptive wireless LANs
Recent years have seen the growing popularity of multi-rate wireless network devices (e.g., 802.11a cards) that can exploit variations in channel conditions and improve overall ne...
Zhengrong Ji, Yi Yang, Junlan Zhou, Mineo Takai, R...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
CSMA/CN: carrier sense multiple access with collision notification
A wireless transmitter learns of a packet loss, infers collision, only after completing the entire transmission. If the transmitter could detect the collision early (such as with ...
Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakudit...
MMMACNS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Self-managed Cells for Ubiquitous Systems
Abstract. Amongst the challenges of ubiquitous computing is the need to provide management support for personal wireless devices and sensors. In this extended abstract we introduce...
Naranker Dulay, Emil C. Lupu, Morris Sloman, Joe S...
EWCBR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Provenance, Trust, and Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Case-Based Web Search
Despite the success of modern Web search engines, challenges remain when it comes to providing people with access to the right information at the right time. In this paper, we desc...
Peter Briggs, Barry Smyth