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NORDICHI
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Breaking affordance: culture as context
The concept of affordance as it applies to user interface design is widely used and accepted; possibly overused. This paper explores one of the constraints on affordance: culture....
Lidia Oshlyansky, Harold W. Thimbleby, Paul A. Cai...
FATES
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Specifying and Generating Test Cases Using Observer Automata
We present a technique for specifying coverage criteria and a method for generating test suites for systems whose behaviours can be described as extended finite state machines (EF...
Johan Blom, Anders Hessel, Bengt Jonsson, Paul Pet...
GECCO
2004
Springer
126views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
A Gene Based Adaptive Mutation Strategy for Genetic Algorithms
In this study, a new mechanism that adapts the mutation rate for each locus on the chromosomes, based on feedback obtained from the current population is proposed. Through tests us...
Sima Uyar, Sanem Sariel, Gülsen Eryigit
HUC
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Some Assembly Required: Supporting End-User Sensor Installation in Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Environments
This paper explores end-user sensor installation for domestic ubiquitous computing applications and proposes five design principles to support this task. End-user sensor installati...
Chris Beckmann, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca
MWCN
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The Receiver's Dilemma
In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), each node has the capacity to act as a router. The performance of the MANET relies on how well the nodes perform this function. In simulations,...
John P. Mullen, Timothy Matis, Smriti Rangan