PVLDB
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Non-technical users are increasingly adding structures to their data. This gives rise to the need for database design. However, traditional database design is deliberate and heavy...
USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Users are storing ever-increasing amounts of information digitally, driven by many factors including government regulations and the public’s desire to digitally record their per...
EUROMICRO
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Network-centric computing aims to solve the problems associated with traditional client/server systems, namely the high performance requirements, and costly maintenance of, the co...
DPPI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
In this paper, we discuss and compare two user centred methods applied in concept design: observation and probes. The comparison is based on findings from two case studies. In the...
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Users commonly download, patch, and use applications such as email clients, office applications, and media-players from the Internet. Such applications are run with the user’s ...
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Preventing adversaries from compiling significant amounts of user data is a major challenge for social network operators. We examine the difficulty of collecting profile and ...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Filling out forms of web based services on mobile devices is a very time consuming and frustrating task for users because of the limited text input capabilities. This is a critica...