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ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques
Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the prevalence of touch screens and have prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are st...
Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jacob O. Wobbroc...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
FairTorrent: bringing fairness to peer-to-peer systems
Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications suffer from a fundamental problem of unfairness. Free-riders cause slower download times for others by contributing little or no upload band...
Alex Sherman, Jason Nieh, Clifford Stein
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Traffic management and resource allocation in small wired/wireless networks
We consider the problem of traffic management in small networks with both wireless and wired devices, connected to the Internet through a single gateway. Examples of such networks...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Peter B. ...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
MDCube: a high performance network structure for modular data center interconnection
Shipping-container-based data centers have been introduced as building blocks for constructing mega-data centers. However, it is a challenge on how to interconnect those container...
Haitao Wu, Guohan Lu, Dan Li, Chuanxiong Guo, Yong...