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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
CASCON
1997
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13 years 9 months ago
Keeping virtual information resources up and running
The maintenanceofmaterializedviews in largescale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources ISs, such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of in...
Amy J. Lee, Anisoara Nica, Elke A. Rundensteiner
CANDC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Causality and virtual reality art
In this paper, we discuss how a cognitive concept, causality, can be used for the conceptual underpinning of Virtual Reality Art installations. Causality plays an important role i...
Marc Cavazza, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Sean Crooks, Alok N...
CSCW
1996
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Shared Spaces: Transportation, Artificiality, and Spatiality
We begin by reviewing current spatial approaches to CSCW (mediaspaces, spatial video conferencing, collaborative virtual environments and telepresence applications) and classifyin...
Steve Benford, Chris Brown, Gail Reynard, Chris Gr...
NSDI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Black-box and Gray-box Strategies for Virtual Machine Migration
Virtualization can provide significant benefits in data centers by enabling virtual machine migration to eliminate hotspots. We present Sandpiper, a system that automates the ta...
Timothy Wood, Prashant J. Shenoy, Arun Venkatarama...