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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
Relaxed space bounding for moving objects: a case for the buddy tree
Rapid advancements in positioning systems and wireless communications enable accurate tracking of continuously moving objects. This development poses new challenges to database te...
Shuqiao Guo, Zhiyong Huang, H. V. Jagadish, Beng C...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Answering common questions about code
Difficulties understanding update paths while understanding code cause developers to waste time and insert bugs. A detailed investigation of these difficulties suggests that a wid...
Thomas D. LaToza
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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16 years 4 months ago
Cost-efficient and Differentiated Data Availability Guarantees in Data Clouds
Abstract-- Failures of any type are common in current datacenters. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while different availability levels per application or ...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Context Bindings in Pervasive Middleware
Context-awareness (CA) enables the development of personalized pervasive services. Current context-aware infrastructures focus on middleware solutions to support acquisition, usag...
Tom Broens, Marten van Sinderen, Aart van Halteren...