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CSCW
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Notifications and awareness: a field study of alert usage and preferences
Desktop notifications are designed to provide awareness of information while a user is attending to a primary task. Unfortunately the awareness can come with the price of disrupti...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz
SOUPS
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Stopping spyware at the gate: a user study of privacy, notice and spyware
Spyware is a significant problem for most computer users. The term “spyware” loosely describes a new class of computer software. This type of software may track user activitie...
Nathaniel Good, Rachna Dhamija, Jens Grossklags, D...
HRI
2007
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Developing performance metrics for the supervisory control of multiple robots
Efforts are underway to make it possible for a single operator to effectively control multiple robots. In these high workload situations, many questions arise including how many r...
Jacob W. Crandall, M. L. Cummings
CDC
2008
IEEE
141views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
Distributed welfare games with applications to sensor coverage
We consider a variation of the resource allocation problem. In the traditional problem, there is a global planner who would like to assign a set of players to a set of resources s...
Jason R. Marden, Adam Wierman
HICSS
2009
IEEE
155views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Explaining the Continuous Use of Social Virtual Worlds: An Applied Theory of Planned Behavior Approach
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly popular spaces for social interaction. To be attractive to engage with, maintaining a sufficient base of active users is a si...
Jani Merikivi, Matti Mäntymäki