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ICPADS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Plug: Virtual Worlds for Millions of People
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Defragmenting DHT-based Distributed File Systems
Existing DHT-based file systems use consistent hashing to assign file blocks to random machines. As a result, a user task accessing an entire file or multiple files needs to r...
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 26 days ago
Oops, I did it again: mitigating repeated access control errors on facebook
We performed a study of Facebook users to examine how they coped with limitations of the Facebook privacy settings interface. Students graduating and joining the workforce create ...
Serge Egelman, Andrew Oates, Shriram Krishnamurthi
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Cascadia: a system for specifying, detecting, and managing rfid events
Cascadia is a system that provides RFID-based pervasive computing applications with an infrastructure for specifying, extracting and managing meaningful high-level events from raw...
Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Julie Letchne...
C5
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Syncing Croquet with the Real World
3D virtual environments like Croquet need to be attractive in order to be visited and used. Their attractiveness depends on the level of vitality that the user is able to experien...
Grit Schuster, Christine Strothotte, Carola Zwick