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WEBDB
2000
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Quilt: An XML Query Language for Heterogeneous Data Sources
The World Wide Web promises to transform human society by making virtually all types of information instantly available everywhere. Two prerequisites for this promise to be realiz...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie, Daniela Flor...
SCA
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Screen space meshes
We present a simple yet powerful approach for the generation and rendering of surfaces defined by the boundary of a three-dimensional point cloud. First, a depth map plus internal...
Matthias Müller, Simon Schirm, Stephan Duthal...
AVI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Balancing physical and digital properties in mixed objects
Mixed interactive systems seek to smoothly merge physical and digital worlds. In this paper we focus on mixed objects that take part in the interaction. Based on our Mixed Interac...
Céline Coutrix, Laurence Nigay
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Simulation of sensor-based tracking in Second Life
This paper describes "Second Life" as a novel type of testbed and simulation environment for sensor-based applications. Second Life is a popular virtual online world tha...
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendin...
CANDC
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The amateur creator
Important design problems are raised in developing software for amateur users, a group distinguished here from novices. The authors argue that these design problems can be approac...
Stephen Boyd Davis, Magnus Moar