The coming millenium will be characterized by the availability of multiple information appliances that make ubiquitous information access an accepted fact of life. The ability to ...
Thanks to recent scientific advances, it is now possible to design multimodal interfaces allowing the use of speech and pointing out gestures on a touchscreen. However, present sp...
Sandrine Robbe-Reiter, Noelle Carbonell, Pierre Da...
Multiprocessing is already prevalent in servers where multiple clients present an obvious source of thread-level parallelism. However, the case for multiprocessing is less clear f...
In the public sector (particularly in the UK in light of recent reforms i.e. the Local Government Act 2000, etc.) a greater degree of accountability and public involvement or inte...
Patrick G. Watson, Penny Duquenoy, Margaret Brenna...
A delay of about 100 ms gives human communicators the feeling of live interaction. Since in a global network the propagation delay alone is about 100 ms, every other delay compone...