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CORR
2008
Springer
88views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Framework for Dynamic Evaluation of Muscle Fatigue in Manual Handling Work
- Muscle fatigue is defined as the point at which the muscle is no longer able to sustain the required force or work output level. The overexertion of muscle force and muscle fatig...
Liang Ma, Fouad Bennis, Damien Chablat, Wei Zhang
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
212views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
A mean field model of work stealing in large-scale systems
In this paper, we consider a generic model of computational grids, seen as several clusters of homogeneous processors. In such systems, a key issue when designing efficient job al...
Nicolas Gast, Bruno Gaujal
ITS
2010
Springer
178views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Learning What Works in ITS from Non-traditional Randomized Controlled Trial Data
The traditional, well established approach to finding out what works in education research is to run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) using a standard pretest and posttest desig...
Zachary A. Pardos, Matthew D. Dailey, Neil T. Heff...
ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Link Reversal: How to Play Better to Work Less
Sensor networks, with their ad hoc deployments, node mobility, and wireless communication, pose serious challenges for developing provably correct and efficient applications. A po...
Bernadette Charron-Bost, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef ...