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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
A growing social problem in the U.S., and elsewhere, is enabling older adults to continue living independently, as opposed to moving to an institutional care setting. One key part...
Jim Rowan, Elizabeth D. Mynatt
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Unintended effects: varying icon spacing changes users' visual search strategy
Users of modern GUIs routinely engage in visual searches for various control items, such as buttons and icons. Because this is so ubiquitous, it is important that the visual prope...
Sarah P. Everett, Michael D. Byrne
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Online optimization of 802.11 mesh networks
802.11 wireless mesh networks are ubiquitous, but suffer from severe performance degradations due to poor synergy between the 802.11 CSMA MAC protocol and higher layers. Several s...
Theodoros Salonidis, Georgios Sotiropoulos, Roch G...
PKDD
2005
Springer
123views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
A Multi-metric Index for Euclidean and Periodic Matching
In many classification and data-mining applications the user does not know a priori which distance measure is the most appropriate for the task at hand without examining the produ...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Vittorio Caste...
JCDL
2004
ACM
106views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Sharing encountered information: digital libraries get a social life
As part of a more extensive study of reading-related practices, we have explored how people share information they encounter in their everyday reading as a complement to the more ...
Catherine C. Marshall, Sara A. Bly