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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe
ICRA
2008
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
How morphology affects self-assembly in a stochastic modular robot
Abstract— Self-assembly is a process through which an organized structure can spontaneously form from simple parts. Taking inspiration from biological examples of self-assembly, ...
Shuhei Miyashita, Max Kessler, Marco Lungarella
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
How equitable is rational negotiation?
Notions of fairness have recently received increased attention in the context of resource allocation problems, pushed by diverse applications where not only pure utilitarian effic...
Sylvia Estivie, Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Nic...
EELC
2006
124views Languages» more  EELC 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing
Abstract. According to the functional approach to language evolution (inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar), grammar arises to deal with issues in communicati...
Luc Steels, Pieter Wellens
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Low cost prototyping: part 1, or how to produce better ideas faster by getting user reactions early and often
Although approaches to User Centered Software Development have existed for almost 20 years a rift still exists between theory and practice. In practice, many software projects are...
Stephen Brown, Andreas Holzinger