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MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Got predictability?: experiences with fault-tolerant middleware
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...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
VAST
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual San Storytelling for Children: Content vs. Experience
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...
Ilda Ladeira, Edwin H. Blake
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models
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. ...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Example-centric programming: integrating web search into the development environment
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...
CE
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Reusable, lifelike virtual humans for mentoring and role-playing
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Edward M. Sims