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2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Making love in the network closet: the benefits and work of family videochat
In this paper, we explore the benefits of videochat for families and the corresponding work that home users engage in to make a video call run smoothly. We explore the varieties o...
Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spasojevic, Morgan ...
SEE
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Broadening Ethics Teaching in Engineering: Beyond the Individualistic Approach
There is a widespread approach to the teaching of ethics to engineering students in which the exclusive focus is on engineers as individual agents and the broader context in which...
Eddie Conlon, Henk Zandvoort
UM
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Bayesian Credibility Modeling for Personalized Recommendation in Participatory Media
In this paper, we focus on the challenge that users face in processing messages on the web posted in participatory media settings, such as blogs. It is desirable to recommend to us...
Aaditeshwar Seth, Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic characters
There is currently an ongoing demand for richer Intelligent Virtual Environments (IVEs) populated with social intelligent agents. As a result, many agent architectures are taking ...
Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Nuno Afonso,...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
114views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
On Structural Analysis of Large Networks
Containing much valuable information, networks such as the World Wide Web, social networks and metabolic networks draw increasingly attention in scientific communities. Network cl...
Nurcan Yuruk, Xiaowei Xu, Thomas A. J. Schweiger