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CSCW
2002
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Activity Theory and System Design: A View from the Trenches
An activity theory model and a mediating artifacts hierarchy were employed to help identify the needs for tools for customer support engineers who documented solutions to customer...
Patricia Collins, Shilpa Shukla, David F. Redmiles
LCPC
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Language Extensions in Support of Compiler Parallelization
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an approach to automatic compiler parallelization based on language extensions that is applicable to a broader range of program structures and a...
Jun Shirako, Hironori Kasahara, Vivek Sarkar
CSCW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home
In this paper we describe a field trial designed to investigate the potential of remote, situated messaging within the home. Five households used our “HomeNote” device for app...
Abigail Sellen, Richard H. R. Harper, Rachel Eardl...
MICAI
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Knowledge and Reasoning Supported by Cognitive Maps
A powerful and useful approach for modeling knowledge and qualitative reasoning is the Cognitive Map. The background of Cognitive Maps is the research about learning environments c...
Alejandro Peña Ayala, Humberto Sossa, Agust...
CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Towards Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs in a Cluster of Workstations
While previous CPU- or memory-centric load balancing schemes are capable of achieving the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources in a cluster system, the cluster exhib...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson