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CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media
Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos ? both in desktop and mobile environments ? despite the many potential uses for annotations, including...
Morgan Ames, Mor Naaman
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused ...
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, ...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
The Impact of Virtualization on Network Performance of Amazon EC2 Data Center
Abstract--Cloud computing services allow users to lease computing resources from large scale data centers operated by service providers. Using cloud services, users can deploy a wi...
Guohui Wang, T. S. Eugene Ng
EURONGI
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Performance of Different Proxy Concepts in UMTS Networks
It is well known that the large round trip time and the highly variable delay in a cellular network may degrade the performance of TCP. Many concepts have been proposed to improve ...
Marc Necker, Michael Scharf, Andreas Weber 0003
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Chick clique: persuasive technology to motivate teenage girls to exercise
We are developing a preventative health cell phone application that helps motivate teenage girls to exercise by exploiting their social desire to stay connected with their peers. ...
Tammy Toscos, Anne M. Faber, Shunying An, Mona Pra...