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ECIS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
A session-based empirical investigation of web usage
This paper reports the results of a study of Web usage of 139 users over a 8 month period of time. It uses a longitudinal Web log analysis of the URLs accessed during 33916 user-d...
Mario Christ, Steffan Baron, Ramayya Krishnan, Dan...
INTERNET
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Deploying Rural Community Wireless Mesh Networks
The lack of adequate Internet provision in rural areas is widening the digital divide between town and country. This is proving detrimental to social communication as well as the a...
Johnathan Ishmael, Sara Bury, Dimitrios P. Pezaros...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 11 days ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam
SIGGRAPH
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Educating technophile artists: experiences from a highly successful computer animation undergraduate programme
Over the past few decades, the arts have become increasingly dependent on and influenced by the development of computer technology. In the 1960s pioneering artists experimented w...
Peter Comninos, Leigh McLoughlin, Eike Falk Anders...
ICIP
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Software Pipelines Design for Variable Block-Size Motion Estimation with Large Search Range
This paper presents some techniques for efficient motion estimation (ME) implementation on fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) for high resolution video coding. First, chal...
Zhigang Yang, Wen Gao, Yan Liu, Debin Zhao