Abstract: Although a quantum state requires exponentially many classical bits to describe, the laws of quantum mechanics impose severe restrictions on how that state can be accesse...
Supporting awareness of others is an idea that holds promise for improving the usability of real-time distributed groupware. However, there is little principled information availa...
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
Morten Fjeld, Kristina Lauche, Martin Bichsel, Fre...
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
In this paper we present a mechanism for serializing the execution-state of a distributed Java application that is implemented on a conventional Object Request Broker (ORB) archite...