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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Fitting an activity-centric system into an ecology of workplace tools
Knowledge workers expend considerable effort managing fragmentation, characterized by constant switching among digital artifacts, when executing work activities. Activitycentric c...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Tara Matthews, Thomas P. Mo...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
130views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Scavenger hunt: computer science retention through orientation
This paper describes Scavenger Hunt, a team-based orientation activity for incoming freshmen in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...
Jerry O. Talton, Daniel L. Peterson, Sam Kamin, De...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
121views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Sampling Strategies for Active Learning in Personal Photo Retrieval
With the advent and proliferation of digital cameras and computers, the number of digital photos created and stored by consumers has grown extremely large. This created increasing...
Yi Wu, Igor Kozintsev, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Carole D...
IPSN
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Some sensor network elements for ubiquitous computing
— Ubiquitous computing applications often use a user's context to automatically adjust their behavior to the situation. We have developed three types of wireless sensor node...
Waylon Brunette, Jonathan Lester, Adam D. Rea, Gae...
ELPUB
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Technology and Culture: Integration or Disintegration?
This paper deals with the problems of weakening of human memory due to the increasing use of machine memories in many ways. It enumerates the advantages of machine memory as state...
Mortaza Kokabi