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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A bright green perspective on sustainable choices
We present a qualitative study of 35 United States households whose occupants have made significant accommodations to their homes and behaviors in order to be more environmentally...
Allison Woodruff, Jay Hasbrouck, Sally Augustin
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Participatory design in emergency medical service: designing for future practice
We describe our research--its approach, results and products--on Danish emergency medical service (EMS) field or "pre-hospital" work in minor and major incidents. We dis...
Margit Kristensen, Morten Kyng, Leysia Palen
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The temporal aspects of work for HCI
The general aim of the workshop is to explore the temporal aspects of work for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This position paper attempts to contribute to the exploration by p...
Peter J. Wild, Peter Johnson, Chris Roast, Mary Cz...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Sprint: a middleware for high-performance transaction processing
Sprint is a middleware infrastructure for high performance and high availability data management. It extends the functionality of a standalone in-memory database (IMDB) server to ...
Lásaro J. Camargos, Fernando Pedone, Marcin...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...