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CIG
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fun in Slots
— People play games for fun. Yet we are lacking a fundamental understanding of what fun is and how fun works in games and other media. For example, why do thousands of people spe...
Kevin Burns
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
The emerging field of language dynamics
Large linguistic databases, especially databases having a global coverage such as The World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005), The Automated Simility Judgment ...
Søren Wichmann
SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Better results in mathematics lessons with a virtual personal teacher
In this paper we present the results of an experiment made with our e-librarian service ”MatES”, an e-Learning tool on fractions in mathematics. MatES allows students to enter...
Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Christoph Meinel
SSDBM
2007
IEEE
124views Database» more  SSDBM 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Incorporating Uncertainty Metrics into a General-Purpose Data Integration System
There is a significant need for data integration capabilities in the scientific domain, which has manifested itself as products in the commercial world as well as academia. Howeve...
Brenton Louie, Landon Detwiler, Nilesh N. Dalvi, R...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Good, the Bad, And the Ugly: Stepping on the Security Scale
: Metrics are both fashionable and timely: many regulations that affect cybersecurity rely upon metrics – albeit, of the checklist variety in many cases – to ascertain complian...
Mary Ann Davidson