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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 5 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»
15 years 10 months 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
15 years 6 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
15 years 11 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
15 years 9 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