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CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Activity-based prototyping of ubicomp applications for long-lived, everyday human activities
We designed an activity-based prototyping process realized in the ActivityDesigner system that combines the theoretical framework of Activity-Centered Design with traditional iter...
Yang Li, James A. Landay
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
CHI
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Ignoring perfect knowledge in-the-world for imperfect knowledge in-the-head
Constraints and dependencies among the elements of embodied cognition form patterns or microstrategies of interactive behavior. Hard constraints determine which microstrategies ar...
Wayne D. Gray, Wai-Tat Fu
POPL
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Preferential path profiling: compactly numbering interesting paths
Path profiles provide a more accurate characterization of a program's dynamic behavior than basic block or edge profiles, but are relatively more expensive to collect. This h...
Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Nori, Trishul M. Chilimbi
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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Holistic Aggregates in a Networked World: Distributed Tracking of Approximate Quantiles
While traditional database systems optimize for performance on one-shot queries, emerging large-scale monitoring applications require continuous tracking of complex aggregates and...
Graham Cormode, Minos N. Garofalakis, S. Muthukris...