Crowdsourcing is a new kind of organizational structure, one that is conducive to large amounts of short parallel work: thousands of individuals may work for several minutes on tas...
The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components. The key underlying prin...
Christopher X. Brooks, Edward A. Lee, Stavros Trip...
Many people believe that emotions and subjective feelings are one and the same and that a goal of human-centered computing is emotion recognition. The first belief is outdated; the...
We introduce a new interactive system: a game that is fun and can be used to create valuable output. When people play the game they help determine the contents of images by provid...
New communication technologies are changing the way travellers gossip and trade advice while on the road. This paper presents initial results from our studies of backpacker cultur...