In Cooperative Automatic Repeat reQuest (C-ARQ) protocols, one or more nodes can act as relays, collaborating in the frame retransmission process between a sender and a destination...
We conducted two studies that demonstrate automatically generated interfaces can be more usable than interfaces created by human designers. The first study shows that users of aut...
Due to upcoming mobile telephony services with higher speech quality, a wideband (50 Hz to 7 kHz) mobile telephony derivative of TIMIT has been recorded called WTIMIT. It allows a...
A problem with many of today's appliance interfaces is that they are inconsistent. For example, the procedure for setting the time on alarm clocks and VCRs differs, even amon...
In 1969, Thomas Schelling proposed one of the most cited models in economics to explain how similar people (e.g. people with the same race, education, community) group together in...