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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
An evaluation of using programming by demonstration and guided walkthrough techniques for authoring and utilizing documentation
Much existing documentation is informal and serves to communicate "how-to" knowledge among restricted working groups. Using current practices, such documentation is both...
Madhu Prabaker, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Cast...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Effective Instruction Prefetching in Chip Multiprocessors for Modern Commercial Applications
In this paper, we study the instruction cache miss behavior of four modern commercial applications (a database workload, TPC-W, SPECjAppServer2002 and SPECweb99). These applicatio...
Lawrence Spracklen, Yuan Chou, Santosh G. Abraham
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Safety-critical interaction: usability in incidents and accidents
Recent years have seen an increasing use of sophisticated interaction techniques in the field of command and control systems. The use of such techniques has been required in order...
Philippe A. Palanque, Floor Koornneef, Chris Johns...
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments
User interfaces can improve task performance by exploiting the powerful human capabilities for spatial cognition. This opportunity has been demonstrated by many prior experiments....
Andy Cockburn, Bruce J. McKenzie
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Taming Aggressive Replication in the Pangaea Wide-Area File System
Pangaea is a wide-area file system that supports data sharing among a community of widely distributed users. It is built on a symmetrically decentralized infrastructure that consi...
Yasushi Saito, Christos T. Karamanolis, Magnus Kar...