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ISMAR
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Augmented Chemistry: An Interactive Educational Workbench
This system paper reports on some of the advantages tangible interaction can bring to chemistry education. The paper describes the realisation of an in-house designed Tangible Use...
Morten Fjeld, Benedikt M. Voegtli
STOC
2010
ACM
228views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
On the searchability of small-world networks with arbitrary underlying structure
Revisiting the “small-world” experiments of the ’60s, Kleinberg observed that individuals are very effective at constructing short chains of acquaintances between any two p...
Pierre Fraigniaud and George Giakkoupis
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
125views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Information asymmetries in pay-per-bid auctions
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
COLCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An analytical study of GWAP-based geospatial tagging systems
—Geospatial tagging (geotagging) is an emerging and very promising application that can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information, and facilitate the deve...
Ling-Jyh Chen, Yu-Song Syu, Bo-Chun Wang, Wang-Chi...
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Self-organized control of knowledge generation in pervasive computing systems
Pervasive computing devices (e.g., sensor networks, localization devices, cameras, etc.) are increasingly present in every aspect of our lives. These devices are able to generate ...
Gabriella Castelli, Ronaldo Menezes, Franco Zambon...