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EDBT
2006
ACM
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Physical Design Refinement: The "Merge-Reduce" Approach
Abstract. Physical database design tools rely on a DBA-provided workload to pick an "optimal" set of indexes and materialized views. Such an approach fails to capture sce...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Iterative Design Process of a Location-Aware Device for Group Use
Abstract. We present our approach to the design of two generations of outdoors device that enable visitors to view 3D historical reconstructions when exploring present day sites. R...
Holger Schnädelbach, Boriana Koleva, Michael ...
PRESENCE
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
The Place Probe: Exploring a Sense of Place in Real and Virtual Environments
This paper describes the design, application, and refinement of a qualitative tool designed to study sense of place. The Place Probe incorporates a range of stimuli and techniques...
David Benyon, Michael Smyth, Shaleph O'Neill, Rod ...
UIST
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
ModelCraft: capturing freehand annotations and edits on physical 3D models
With the availability of affordable new desktop fabrication techniques such as 3D printing and laser cutting, physical models are used increasingly often during the architectural ...
Hyunyoung Song, François Guimbretièr...
BIRTHDAY
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Deriving Specifications for Systems That Are Connected to the Physical World
Well understood methods exist for developing programs from formal specifications. Not only do such methods offer a precise check that certain sorts of deviations from their specifi...
Cliff B. Jones, Ian J. Hayes, Michael A. Jackson