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HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A First Investigation into the Effectiveness of Tactons
This paper reports two experiments relating to the design of Tactons (or tactile icons). The first experiment investigated perception of vibro-tactile “roughness” (created usi...
Lorna M. Brown, Stephen A. Brewster, Helen C. Purc...
HICSS
2002
IEEE
162views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
15 years 9 months ago
Designing for Pedagogical Effectiveness: The TextWeaver
The online discussion forum is the main mode of interaction for Web-based learning. Existing online instructional management systems contain primitive discussion tools that do lit...
Cindy Xin, Andrew Feenberg
PG
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Approximation with Active B-Spline Curves and Surfaces
An active contour model for parametric curve and surface approximation is presented. The active curve or surface adapts to the model shape to be approximated in an optimization al...
Helmut Pottmann, Stefan Leopoldseder, Michael Hofe...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...
Ao-Jan Su, David R. Choffnes, Fabián E. Bus...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
140views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 4 months ago
Relational joins on graphics processors
We present a novel design and implementation of relational join algorithms for new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs). The most recent GPU features include support for wr...
Bingsheng He, Ke Yang, Rui Fang, Mian Lu, Naga K. ...