Thanks to recent advances in virtualization technologies, it is now possible to benefit from the flexibility brought by virtual machines at little cost in terms of CPU performance....
This paper examines how users negotiate their self-presentation via an avatar used in social media. Twenty participants customised an avatar while thinking aloud. An analysis of t...
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...
Current perceptions of Instant Messaging (IM) use are based primarily on self-report studies. We logged thousands of (mostly) workplace IM conversations and evaluated their conver...
Ellen Isaacs, Alan Walendowski, Steve Whittaker, D...
Applications that rely on mobile devices for user interaction must be mindful of the user's limited attention, which will typically be split between several competing tasks. C...
Stephen Knox, Ross Shannon, Lorcan Coyle, Adrian K...