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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Towards caring machines
The perception of feeling cared for has beneficial consequences in education, psychotherapy, and medicine. Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are ...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Rosalind W. Picard
ICCD
2005
IEEE
108views Hardware» more  ICCD 2005»
16 years 14 days ago
Methods for Modeling Resource Contention on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) seeks to improve the computation throughput of a processor core by sharing primary resources such as functional units, issue bandwidth, and cache...
Tipp Moseley, Dirk Grunwald, Joshua L. Kihm, Danie...
169
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VR
2009
IEEE
319views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Virtual Heliodon: Spatially Augmented Reality for Architectural Daylighting Design
We present an application of interactive global illumination and spatially augmented reality to architectural daylight modeling that allows designers to explore alternative design...
Yu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, Christopher Young, Bar...
132
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CA
2000
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Thin Shell Volume for Modeling Human Hair
Hair-to-hair interaction is often ignored in human hair modeling, due to its computational and algorithmic complexity. In this paper, we present our experimental approach to simul...
Tae-Yong Kim 0002, Ulrich Neumann
VLDB
1994
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
15 years 7 months ago
On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies
In this paper we address the problem of devising a set of indexes for a nested object hierarchy in an object-oriented database to improve the overall system performance. It is not...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Y...