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IADIS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Design of Physical Activity Recommendation System
Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) has been shown to be an effective way of preventing diseases. However 50% of the people who start any type of sports or LTPA drop out of the ...
Ashkan Sami, Ryoichi Nagatomi, Masahiro Terabe, Ka...
SE
2010
13 years 5 months ago
weHelp: A Reference Architecture for Social Recommender Systems
Abstract: Recommender systems have become increasingly popular. Most of the research on recommender systems has focused on recommendation algorithms. There has been relatively litt...
Swapneel Sheth, Nipun Arora, Christian Murphy, Gai...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware
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...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Robustness in automatic physical database design
Automatic physical database design tools rely on "what-if" interfaces to the query optimizer to estimate the execution time of the training query workload under differen...
Kareem El Gebaly, Ashraf Aboulnaga