This paper describes the process of designing an authoring tool for virtual environments, using constructivist principles. The focus of the tool is on helping novice designers wit...
To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a human– to–human conversation which also provides meanin...
Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Corn...
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...
During the development of system requirements, software system specifications are often inconsistent. Inconsistencies may arise for different reasons, for example, when multiple...
Odinaldo Rodrigues, Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Aless...