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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 6 days 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...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
253views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
Skew-aware automatic database partitioning in shared-nothing, parallel OLTP systems
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Andrew Pavlo, Carlo Curino, Stanley B. Zdonik
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Tag-based social interest discovery
The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the research...
Xin Li, Lei Guo, Yihong Eric Zhao
MC
2003
157views Computer Science» more  MC 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
From Adaptive Hypermedia to the Adaptive Web
Web systems suffer from an inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs of many users. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all'' approac...
Peter Brusilovsky
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...