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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Rake cursor: improving pointing performance with concurrent input channels
We investigate the use of two concurrent input channels to perform a pointing task. The first channel is the traditional mouse input device whereas the second one is the gaze posi...
Renaud Blanch, Michael Ortega
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Move to improve: promoting physical navigation to increase user performance with large displays
In navigating large information spaces, previous work indicates potential advantages of physical navigation (moving eyes, head, body) over virtual navigation (zooming, panning, fl...
Robert Ball, Chris North, Doug A. Bowman
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Using smart triggers for improved user performance in 802.11 wireless networks
The handoff algorithms in the current generation of 802.11 networks are primarily reactive in nature, because they wait until the link quality degrades substantially to trigger a ...
Vivek Mhatre, Konstantina Papagiannaki
SEUS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Transparent and Selective Real-Time Interrupt Services for Performance Improvement
The popularity of mobile and multimedia applications made real-time support a mandatory feature for embedded operating systems. However, the current situation is that the overall p...
Jinkyu Jeong, Euiseong Seo, Dongsung Kim, Jinsoo K...