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HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Augmenting on-screen instructions with micro-projected guides: when it works, and when it fails
We present a study that evaluates the effectiveness of augmenting on-screen instructions with micro-projection for manual task guidance unlike prior work, which replaced screen in...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbr...
ASM
2010
ASM
14 years 4 months ago
Reasoned Modelling Critics: Turning Failed Proofs into Modelling Guidance
The activities of formal modelling and reasoning are closely related. But while the rigour of building formal models brings significant benefits, formal reasoning remains a major...
Andrew Ireland, Gudmund Grov, Michael Butler
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
When do markets with simple agents fail?
We consider (prediction) markets where myopic agents sequentially interact with an automated market maker. We show a broad negative result: by varying the order of participation, ...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
What to do when search fails: finding information by association
Sometimes people cannot remember the names or locations of things on their computer, but they can remember what other things are associated with them. We created Feldspar, the fir...
Duen Horng Chau, Brad A. Myers, Andrew Faulring
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
How to Recover Efficiently and Asynchronously when Optimism Fails
We propose a new algorithm for recovering asynchronously from failures in a distributed computation. Our algorithm is based on two novel concepts - a fault-tolerant vector clock t...
Om P. Damani, Vijay K. Garg