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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Teaching introductory Java through LEGO MINDSTORMS models
Innovative teachers are continually looking for creative ideas, both to get their ideas across and to hold the interest of their students. One of the latest trends is the use of L...
David J. Barnes
TIP
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Variational Region-Based Segmentation Using Multiple Texture Statistics
This paper addresses variational supervised texture segmentation. The main contributions are twofold. First, the proposed method circumvents a major problem related to classical t...
Imen Karoui, Ronan Fablet, Jean-Marc Boucher, Jean...
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
The smallest enclosing ball of balls: combinatorial structure and algorithms
We develop algorithms for computing the smallest enclosing ball of a set of n balls in d-dimensional space. Unlike previous methods, we explicitly address small cases (n ≤ d + 1...
Kaspar Fischer, Bernd Gärtner
IUI
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Helping Users Think in Three Dimensions: Steps Toward Incorporating Spatial Cognition in User Modelling
Historically, efforts at user modelling in educational systems have tended to employ knowledge representations in which symbolic (or "linguistic") cognition is emphasize...
Michael Eisenberg, Ann Nishioka, M. E. Schreiner
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
How really effective are Multimodal Hints in enhancing Visual Target Spotting? Some evidence from a usability study
The main aim of the work presented here is to contribute to computer science advances in the multimodal usability area, in-as-much as it addresses one of the major issues relating...
Suzanne Kieffer, Noelle Carbonell