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MM
2010
ACM
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MediaPick: tangible semantic media retrieval system
This paper addresses the design and development of MediaPick [1], an interactive multi-touch system for semantic search of multimedia contents. Our solution provides an intuitive,...
Gianpaolo D'Amico, Andrea Ferracani, Lea Landucci,...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
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Energy efficient implementation of parallel CMOS multipliers with improved compressors
Booth encoding is believed to yield faster multiplier designs with higher energy consumption. 16x16-bit Booth and NonBooth multipliers are analyzed in energy and delay space under...
Dursun Baran, Mustafa Aktan, Vojin G. Oklobdzija
ESEM
2010
ACM
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Object oriented design pattern decay: a taxonomy
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Travis Schanz, Clemente Izurieta
CHI
2010
ACM
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Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa
We reflect on activities to design a mobile application to enable rural people in South Africa's Eastern Cape to record and share their stories, which have implications for `...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Thomas Reitmaier, Gary Marsden,...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Watt-Lite: energy statistics made tangible
Increasing our knowledge of how design affects behaviour in the workplace has a large potential for reducing electricity consumption. This would be beneficial for the environment ...
Li Jönsson, Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Design from the everyday: continuously evolving, embedded exploratory prototypes
One of the major challenges in the design of social technologies is the evaluation of their qualities of use and how they are appropriated over time. While the field of HCI abound...
Clint Heyer, Margot Brereton
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Materializing energy
Motivated and informed by perspectives on sustainability and design, this paper draws on a diverse body of scholarly works related to energy and materiality to articulate a perspe...
James Pierce, Eric Paulos
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Investigating the relationship between imagery and rationale in design
Artifacts can be used to inspire, guide, and create new designs. As approaches to design can range from focusing on inspiration to formalized reasoning, we seek to create and stud...
Shahtab Wahid, Stacy M. Branham, D. Scott McCricka...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Heritage inquiries: a designerly approach to human values
This two-day workshop brings together the interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners involved in the design of interactive systems and sharing a common interest in ...
Elisa Giaccardi, Ole Sejer Iversen
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
A tale of two publics: democratizing design at the margins
The design and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has now evolved beyond its workplace origins to the wider public, expanding to people who live at the margins ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Jim Christensen, Mark Ba...