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EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Database engines on multicores, why parallelize when you can distribute?
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Jana Gic...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Footing in human-robot conversations: how robots might shape participant roles using gaze cues
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Bilge Mutlu, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Takayuki Kanda, Hiro...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Letting tools talk: interactive technology for firefighting
In this work-in-progress report we present the results of a preliminary analysis of a set of fieldwork studies conducted in collaboration with a firefighter school and a firefight...
Sebastian Denef, Leonardo Ramirez, Tobias Dyrks
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The Social Life of Engineering Authorizations
We may view documents, not only as “containers” for information, but also as active participants in organizing and sustaining communities. This paper discusses our experiences...
William A. Stubblefield, Karen S. Rogers
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...