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HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
An affective guide robot in a shopping mall
To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, ...
MSWIM
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
On the impact of far-away interference on evaluations of wireless multihop networks
It is common practice in wireless multihop network evaluations to ignore interfering signals below a certain signal strength threshold. This paper investigates the thesis that thi...
Douglas M. Blough, Claudia Canali, Giovanni Resta,...
WSDM
2009
ACM
161views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting the readability of short web summaries
Readability is a crucial presentation attribute that web summarization algorithms consider while generating a querybaised web summary. Readability quality also forms an important ...
Tapas Kanungo, David Orr
IPSN
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Distributed resource management and matching in sensor networks
We consider a scenario in which there are resources at or near nodes of a network, which are either static (e.g. fire stations, parking spots) or mobile (e.g. police cars). Over ...
Jie Gao, Leonidas J. Guibas, Nikola Milosavljevic,...
GLVLSI
2009
IEEE
142views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Hardware-accelerated gradient noise for graphics
A synthetic noise function is a key component of most computer graphics rendering systems. This pseudo-random noise function is used to create a wide variety of natural looking te...
Josef B. Spjut, Andrew E. Kensler, Erik Brunvand