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ACMIDC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Semiotics artifacts, space and community: a case study on pinholes
Given the fracturing of virtual and physical spaces, young people are less involved in their local surrounding spaces. Yet, investing the community space is related to sense of co...
Françoise Decortis, Laura Lentini
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
Morten Fjeld, Kristina Lauche, Martin Bichsel, Fre...
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Specifying and dynamically verifying address translation-aware memory consistency
Computer systems with virtual memory are susceptible to design bugs and runtime faults in their address translation (AT) systems. Detecting bugs and faults requires a clear speciï...
Bogdan F. Romanescu, Alvin R. Lebeck, Daniel J. So...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Spontaneous Avatar Behavior for Human Territoriality
Abstract. The challenge of making a virtual world believable includes a requirement for AI entities which autonomously react to a dynamic environment. After the breakthroughs in be...
Claudio Pedica, Hannes Högni Vilhjálms...
HCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
RFID Cards: A New Deal for Elderly Accessibility
Elderly adults face two serious challenges bridging the digital divide. First, many suffer from physical or cognitive disabilities, which inhibit computer use. Second, the “tradi...
Robert Pastel, Charles Wallace, Jesse Heines