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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The usability of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games: designing for new users
This study examines the usability challenges faced by new players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), one of the fastest-growing segments of the video ga...
Steve Cornett
ICFP
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A user-centred approach to functions in Excel
We describe extensions to the Excel spreadsheet that integrate userdefined functions into the spreadsheet grid, rather than treating them as a "bolt-on". Our first objec...
Simon L. Peyton Jones, Alan F. Blackwell, Margaret...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
NoShake: Content Stabilization for Shaking Screens of Mobile Devices
—Consumer electronics and mobile devices intended for pervasive applications are often subject to shaking that makes their screen difficult to read. To address this usability cha...
Ahmad Rahmati, Clayton Shepard, Lin Zhong
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
GTfold: a scalable multicore code for RNA secondary structure prediction
The prediction of the correct secondary structures of large RNAs is one of the unsolved challenges of computational molecular biology. Among the major obstacles is the fact that a...
Amrita Mathuriya, David A. Bader, Christine E. Hei...
VEE
2009
ACM
157views Virtualization» more  VEE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Task-aware virtual machine scheduling for I/O performance
The use of virtualization is progressively accommodating diverse and unpredictable workloads as being adopted in virtual desktop and cloud computing environments. Since a virtual ...
Hwanju Kim, Hyeontaek Lim, Jinkyu Jeong, Heeseung ...