176 views141 votes15 years 11 months ago CHI 2010»
Unlike machines, we humans are prone to boredom when we perform routine activities for long periods of time. Workers’ mental engagement in boring tasks diminishes, which eventua...
183 views169 votes16 years 23 days ago ICPPW 2009»
Abstract—A probabilistic analytical framework for decentralized load balancing (LB) strategies for heterogeneous distributed-computing systems (DCSs) is presented with the overal...
138 views147 votes15 years 9 months ago VECPAR 2000»
This paper analyzes the impact of hardware multithreading support on the performance of distributed shared-memory DSM multiprocessors built out of heterogeneous, single-chip compu...
: In this paper we describe continuing work being carried out as part of the Bristol Wearable Computing Initiative. We are interested in the use of context sensors to improve the u...
This paper presents our design and experiment of a computer-assisted class laboratory on vectors in high-school. Our main goal is to improve the acquisition on notions by all pupi...
This paper describes the architecture of a data level comparative visualization system and experiences using it to study computational fluid dynamics data and experimental wind tu...
— In this paper, a novel approach for parallel kinematic machine control relying on a fast exteroceptive measure is implemented and validated on the Orthoglide robot. This approa...
A multi-level hierarchical content organization and on-demand delivery framework is presented in this paper. This framework enables engineering content representation and exchange...
172 views194 votes15 years 10 months ago SIGCSE 1994»
An experiment in collaborative learning was conducted in two introductory programming courses at Loyola College in Maryland. Data collected included background information on stud...
151 views177 votes15 years 7 months ago EACL 2006»
Term translation probabilities proved an effective method of semantic smoothing in the language modelling approach to information retrieval. We use Generalized Latent Semantic Ana...