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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Exploring effectiveness of physical metaphor in interaction design
One direction of the emerging paradigm of interface design is the use of physical metaphors, the adoption of physical phenomenon from the real world with physical principles such ...
Sang-Su Lee, Woohun Lee
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Web search and browsing behavior under poor connectivity
Web search and browsing have been streamlined for a comfortable experience when the network connection is fast. Existing tools, however, are not optimized for scenarios where conn...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Kentaro To...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Seattle: a platform for educational cloud computing
Cloud computing is rapidly increasing in popularity. Companies such as RedHat, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM are increasingly funding cloud computing infrastructure and resea...
Justin Cappos, Ivan Beschastnikh, Arvind Krishnamu...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Brief announcement: global consistency can be easier than point-to-point communication
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...
MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Fault tolerant target tracking in sensor networks
In this paper, we present a Gaussian mixture model based approach to capture the spatial characteristics of any target signal in a sensor network, and further propose a temporally...
Min Ding, Xiuzhen Cheng