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BSDCON
2003
13 years 8 months ago
An Automated Binary Security Update System for FreeBSD
With the present trend towards increased reliance upon computer systems, the provision and prompt application of security patches is becoming vital. Developers of all operating sy...
Colin Percival
INTERACT
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Be Quiet? Evaluating Proactive and Reactive User Interface Assistants
: This research examined the ability of an anthropomorphic interface assistant to help people learn and use an unfamiliar text-editing tool, with a specific focus on assessing proa...
Jun Xiao, Richard Catrambone, John T. Stasko
HAID
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Audio-Haptic Aesthetic Framework Influenced by Visual Theory
Sound is touch at a distance. The vibration of pressure waves in the air creates sounds that our ears hear, at close range, these pressure waves may also be felt as vibration. This...
Angela Chang, Conor O'Sullivan
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
On the windfall of friendship: inoculation strategies on social networks
This paper studies a virus inoculation game on social networks. A framework is presented which allows the measuring of the windfall of friendship, i.e., how much players benefit i...
Dominic Meier, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Stefan Schmid, ...
COMPUTER
2004
144views more  COMPUTER 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
ActiveCampus: Experiments in Community-Oriented Ubiquitous Computing
The UCSD ActiveCampus project is an exploration of wireless location-aware computing in the university setting. ActiveClass supports classroom activities such as anonymous asking ...
William G. Griswold, Patricia Shanahan, Steven W. ...