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SOUPS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Revealing hidden context: improving mental models of personal firewall users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on th...
Fahimeh Raja, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov
ICRA
2005
IEEE
123views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Human Mental Models of Humanoid Robots
– Effective communication between a person and a robot may depend on whether there exists a common ground of understanding between the two. In two experiments modelled after huma...
Sau-lai Lee, Sara B. Kiesler, Ivy Yee-man Lau, Chi...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
110views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Shared Mental Models among Open Source Software Developers
1 Shared understandings are important for software development as they guide to effective individual contributions to, and coordination of, the software development process. In thi...
Barbara Scozzi, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, ...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Helping students build a mental model of computation
Introductory computer science classes are known for having a high attrition rate. Some authors believe this is due to students’ difficulties in establishing a mental model of co...
Steve Kollmansberger
ICCHP
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Mental Models of Menu Structures in Diabetes Assistants
Abstract. Demographic change in regard to an aging population with an increasing amount of diabetes patients will put a strain on health care rentability in all modern societies. E...
André Calero Valdez, Martina Ziefle, Firat ...