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CANDT
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Communities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activists
In this paper, I describe how various understandings of community activated the design of Dialup Radio, a mobile phonebased independent media distribution system for Zimbabwean ci...
Tad Hirsch
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Tangible programming in the classroom with tern
This interactivity demonstrates Tern, a tangible programming language for middle school and late elementary school students. Tern consists of a collection of wooden blocks shaped ...
Michael S. Horn, Robert J. K. Jacob
CHI
1994
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Towards the interactive office
We describe a prototype system, the Interactive Office, which supports the occupant's daily activities in an office. Discrete sensors embedded in an office detect the occupan...
Steve Hodges, Gifford Louie
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Input Devices with Simple and Compact Haptic Feedback Mechanisms Driven by Finger Movement
Narrow key pitch of compact input devices confuses finger pressure at a key touch pad. To make keys more distinguishable and to improve user-friendliness of such input devices, w...
Itsuo Kumazawa
ICIP
2008
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Learning action dictionaries from video
Summarizing the contents of a video containing human activities is an important problem in computer vision and has important applications in automated surveillance systems. Summar...
Pavan K. Turaga, Rama Chellappa