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WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Transforming web contents into a storybook with dialogues and animations
This paper describes a medium, called Interactive e-Hon, for helping children to understand contents from the Web. It works by transforming electronic contents into an easily unde...
Kaoru Sumi, Katsumi Tanaka
EUROGRAPHICS
2010
Eurographics
14 years 3 months ago
TouchTone: Interactive Local Image Adjustment Using Point-and-Swipe
Recent proliferation of camera phones, photo sharing and social network services has significantly changed how we process our photos. Instead of going through the traditional dow...
Chia-Kai Liang, Wei-Chao Chen, Natasha Gelfand
HICSS
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 19 days ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband
NSDI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching for Connection-Intensive Internet Services
Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnece...
Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas...
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
The Distributed Information Search Component (Disco) and the World Wide Web
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Anthony Tomasic, Rémy Amouroux, Philippe Bo...