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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Keepin' it real: pushing the desktop metaphor with physics, piles and the pen
We explore making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner by adding physics simulation and using piling instead of filing as the fundamental organizational s...
Anand Agarawala, Ravin Balakrishnan
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Paravirtualized Paging
Conceptually, fast server-side page cache storage could dramatically reduce paging I/O. In this extended abstract, we speculate how such a device might be used, then show how it c...
Daniel J. Magenheimer, Chris Mason, Dave McCracken...
PADL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Prospective Storytelling Agents
Abstract. Prospective Logic Programming is a declarative framework supporting the specification of autonomous agents capable of anticipating and reasoning about hypothetical futur...
Gonçalo Lopes, Luís Moniz Pereira
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Probo: a testbed for human robot interaction
The concept of the huggable robot Probo is a result of the desire to improve the living conditions of children in hospital environment. These children need distraction and lots of...
Kristof Goris, Jelle Saldien, Dirk Lefeber
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An implementation substrate for languages composing modularized crosscutting concerns
We present the implementation of several programming languages with support for multi-dimensional separation of concerns (MDSOC) on top of a common delegation-based substrate, whi...
Hans Schippers, Michael Haupt, Robert Hirschfeld