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ICRA
2006
IEEE
92views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Modeling of the Supporting Legs for Designing Biomimetic Water Strider Robots
— Recent studies on the insect water strider showed that the insect heavily relies on surface tension force to stay afloat. Inspired by this insect, water strider robots have be...
Yun Seong Song, Steve H. Suhr, Metin Sitti
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
iCat: an affective game buddy based on anticipatory mechanisms
In this paper, we study the role of emotions and expressive behaviour in socially interactive characters employed in educational games. More specifically, on how we can use such e...
Iolanda Leite, Carlos Martinho, André Perei...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
When the implication is not to design (technology)
As HCI is applied in increasingly diverse contexts, it is important to consider situations in which computational or information technologies may be less appropriate. This paper p...
Eric P. S. Baumer, M. Six Silberman
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
98views Education» more  SIGCSE 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Production programming in the classroom
Students in programming courses generally write “toy” programs, even when the size of the assigned projects is large. Programming assignments are written, superficially teste...
Eric E. Allen, Robert Cartwright, Charles Reis
CORR
2008
Springer
100views Education» more  CORR 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
An Agent-Based Simulation of In-Store Customer Experiences
: Agent-based modelling and simulation offers a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we describe the development of an agent-based simulation mode...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...