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SIGCSE
2012
ACM
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12 years 3 months ago
Understanding the tenets of agile software engineering: lecturing, exploration and critical thinking
The use of agile principles and practices in software development is becoming a powerful force in today’s workplace. In our quest to develop better products, therefore, it is im...
Shvetha Soundararajan, Amine Chigani, James D. Art...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Thinking but not seeing: think-aloud for non-sighted users
This paper discusses some of the methodological challenges that can be encountered when usability testing with visually impaired users. These include (1) the need for customized t...
Philip Strain, A. Dawn Shaikh, Richard Boardman
CHI
1998
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Digital Manipulatives: New Toys to Think With
In many educationalsettings,manipulative materials(such as CuisenaireRods andPatternBlocks) play an important role in children’s learning, enabling children to explore mathemati...
Mitchel Resnick, Fred Martin, Robert Berg, Richard...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a sol...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Lor...
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 1 months ago
Think globally, search locally
A key step in program optimization is the determination of optimal values for code optimization parameters such as cache tile sizes and loop unrolling factors. One approach, which...
Kamen Yotov, Keshav Pingali, Paul Stodghill