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IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A New Semantics of Social Commitments Using Branching Space-Time Logic
—Commitments based on branching time logic are powerful representations for modeling multi-agent interactions. Current approaches into commitments have conceived these representa...
Mohamed El-Menshawy, Jamal Bentahar, Rachida Dssou...
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Toward technologies that support family reflections on health
Previous research has explored how technology can motivate healthy living in social groups such as friends and coworkers. However, little research has focused on the implications ...
Andrea Grimes, Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups
The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One o...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Gonzalo Ramos, M...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game
Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem ...
Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran L...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services
— Robots that operate in the real world will make mistakes. Thus, those who design and build systems will need to understand how best to provide ways for robots to mitigate those...
Min Kyung Lee, Sara Kielser, Jodi Forlizzi, Siddha...