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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
If not now, when?: the effects of interruption at different moments within task execution
User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload. Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In ...
Piotr D. Adamczyk, Brian P. Bailey
ISLPED
2004
ACM
119views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2004»
14 years 25 days ago
Application-level prediction of battery dissipation
Mobile, battery-powered devices such as personal digital assistants and web-enabled mobile phones have successfully emerged as new access points to the world’s digital infrastru...
Chandra Krintz, Ye Wen, Richard Wolski
AIPS
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Combining Stochastic Task Models with Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Scheduling
We view dynamic scheduling as a sequential decision problem. Firstly, we introduce a generalized planning operator, the stochastic task model (STM), which predicts the effects of ...
Malcolm J. A. Strens
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Energy-Aware Task Scheduling: Towards Enabling Mobile Computing over MANETs
Enabling high performance, persistent mobile computing has recently become a very active research area. The widespread popularity of mobile computing devices, such as laptops, han...
Waleed Alsalih, Selim G. Akl, Hossam S. Hassanein
CHI
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Two-handed input using a PDA and a mouse
We performed several experiments using a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) as an input device in the nondominant hand along with a mouse in the dominant hand. A PDA is a small hand...
Brad A. Myers, Kin Pou Lie, Bo-Chieh Yang