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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Designing a technological playground: a field study of the emergence of play in household messaging
We present findings from a field study of Wayve, a situated messaging device for the home that incorporates handwriting and photography. Wayve was used by 24 households (some of w...
Siân E. Lindley, Richard H. R. Harper, Abiga...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities
We describe ViralVCD: a low cost method for tracing paths of information diffusion in developing communities using physical media. We instituted a participatory video framework fo...
Nithya Sambasivan, Ed Cutrell, Kentaro Toyama
SC
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Building the PolarGrid portal using web 2.0 and OpenSocial
Science requires collaboration. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of coupling current social networking techniques to science gateways to provide a scientific collabor...
Zhenhua Guo, Raminderjeet Singh, Marlon E. Pierce
JSSPP
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Contention-Aware Scheduling with Task Duplication
Scheduling a task graph onto several processors is a trade-off between maximising concurrency and minimising interprocessor communication. A technique to reduce or avoid interproc...
Oliver Sinnen, Andrea To, Manpreet Kaur
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Cell-Phone-Incorporated Personal Assistant System for Independent and Assisted Living
Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outs...
Zheng Zeng, S. Yu, Wook Shin, Jennifer C. Hou