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JCDL
2004
ACM
106views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Sharing encountered information: digital libraries get a social life
As part of a more extensive study of reading-related practices, we have explored how people share information they encounter in their everyday reading as a complement to the more ...
Catherine C. Marshall, Sara A. Bly
CIDR
2007
116views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...
Pat Helland
CORR
2007
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
AAI
2002
161views more  AAI 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Scripting Affective Communication with Life-Like Characters in Web-Based Interaction Systems
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...
ADC
2006
Springer
139views Database» more  ADC 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Peer-to-peer form based web information systems
The World Wide Web revolutionized the use of forms in everyday private and business life by allowing a move away from paper forms to easily accessible digital forms. Data captured...
Stijn Dekeyser, Jan Hidders, Richard Watson, Ron A...