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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Utilizing multimedia capabilities of mobile phones to support teaching in schools in rural panama
Providing good education is one of the major challenges for humanity. In many developing regions in the world improving educational standards is seen as a central building block f...
Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamóndez, Chri...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
PhotoCity: training experts at large-scale image acquisition through a competitive game
Large-scale, ground-level urban imagery has recently developed as an important element of online mapping tools such as Google’s Street View. Such imagery is extremely valuable i...
Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-yu Hsiao, Nadine...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell
EDBT
2011
ACM
222views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
The hidden web, XML and the Semantic Web: scientific data management perspectives
The World Wide Web no longer consists just of HTML pages. Our work sheds light on a number of trends on the Internet that go beyond simple Web pages. The hidden Web provides a wea...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna S. Varde, Richi Nayak, ...
CRV
2011
IEEE
305views Robotics» more  CRV 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Motion Segmentation by Learning Homography Matrices from Motor Signals
—Motion information is an important cue for a robot to separate foreground moving objects from the static background world. Based on the observation that the motion of the backgr...
Changhai Xu, Jingen Liu, Benjamin Kuipers