Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, fault-tolerant (FT) mid...
This paper describes the development of a Virtual Environment (VE) for telling a traditional San story. The San are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of southern Africa whose t...
In earlier studies, user involvement with an embodied software agent and willingness to use that agent were partially determined by the aesthetics of the design and the moral fiber...
Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Johan F. ...
The ready availability of online source code examples has changed the cost structure of programming by example modification. However, current search tools are wholly separate from...
Joel Brandt, Mira Dontcheva, Marcos Weskamp, Scott...
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...