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PSYCHNOLOGY
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Nurturing Learners' Communities by Creating and Sharing Maps
We present the SketchMap system, which integrates outdoor and classroom activities to support children's collaborative learning. Individual children create maps near their sc...
Sosuke Miura, Pamela Ravasi, Masanori Sugimoto
TCOM
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Fiber fault PON monitoring using optical coding: Effects of customer geographic distribution
Abstract—We analyze the performance of fiber fault monitoring of a PON using a centralized, passive optical coding (OC) system. We develop an expression for the detected monitor...
Mohammad M. Rad, Habib Fathallah, Leslie A. Rusch
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ACSAC
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Kells: a protection framework for portable data
Portable storage devices, such as key-chain USB devices, are ubiquitous. These devices are often used with impunity, with users repeatedly using the same storage device in open co...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
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PUC
2010
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14 years 5 months ago
A database-based framework for gesture recognition
Abstract Gestures are an important modality for human-machine communication. Computer vision modules performing gesture recognition can be important components of intelligent homes...
Vassilis Athitsos, Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan
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CSCW
2012
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Removing gamification from an enterprise SNS
Gamification, the use of game mechanics in non-gaming applications, has been applied to various systems to encourage desired user behaviors. In this paper, we examine patterns of ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Joan Morr...