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ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Eliciting Requirements for a Robotic Toy for Children with Autism - Results from User Panels
— The discussion presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the IROMEC project which recognizes the important role of play in child development. The project investig...
Ben Robins, Nuno Otero, Ester Ferrari, Kerstin Dau...
GROUP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A collaborative approach to the design and evaluation of an interactive learning tool for children with special educational need
We have developed an educational software tool (Aprendiendo) to reinforce the learning process of children with special educational needs. This tool makes use of a variety of inte...
Beatriz López-Mencía, David Dí...
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Active surfaces: a novel concept for end-user composition
This paper describes the design process of a modular system for supporting physical and cognitive rehabilitation in the swimming pool. In such an environment, the therapist is cal...
Erik Grönvall, Patrizia Marti, Alessandro Pol...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
234views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
Oracle in-database hadoop: when mapreduce meets RDBMS
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Xueyuan Su, Garret Swart