Simultaneous teleoperation of mobile, social robots presents unique challenges, combining the real-time demands of conversation with the prioritized scheduling of navigational tas...
Dylan F. Glas, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, N...
This work explores the use of ambient displays in the context of interruption. A multimodal interface was created to communicate with users by using two ambient channels for inter...
The impact of interruptions on workflow and productivity has been extensively studied in the PC domain, but while fragmented user attention is recognized as an inherent aspect of ...
Amy K. Karlson, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Brian Meyers, Gon...
Databases are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. High performance, availability, and further service level agreements need to be satisfied under any circumstances to please ...
David Wiese, Gennadi Rabinovitch, Michael Reichert...
Hadoop has become a critical component in today’s cloud environment. Ensuring good performance for Hadoop is paramount for the wide-range of applications built on top of it. In ...