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ICWL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Microblogging for Language Learning: Using Twitter to Train Communicative and Cultural Competence
Abstract. Our work analyzes the usefulness of microblogging in second language learning using the example of the social network Twitter. Most learners of English do not require eve...
Kerstin Borau, Carsten Ullrich, Jinjin Feng, Ruimi...
FIS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Energy Consumption Information Services for Smart Home Inhabitants
We investigate services giving users an adequate insight on his or her energy consumption habits in order to optimize it in the long run. The explored energy awareness services are...
Michael Schwanzer, Anna Fensel
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Participatory sensing in public spaces: activating urban surfaces with sensor probes
Recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a new design space for enabling public participation and expression. We explore non-expert...
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Fast and accurate estimation of shortest paths in large graphs
Computing shortest paths between two given nodes is a fundamental operation over graphs, but known to be nontrivial over large disk-resident instances of graph data. While a numbe...
Andrey Gubichev, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Stephan Seu...
HPCC
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A SMS Based Ubiquitous Home Care System
In this study, we defined requirements of ubiquitous environment, which users can monitor and control situations of home anytime, anywhere. In addition we developed and built a mod...
Tae-Seok Lee, Yuan Yang, Myong-Soon Park