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ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
E-SmallTalker: A Distributed Mobile System for Social Networking in Physical Proximity
—Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due ...
Zhimin Yang, Boying Zhang, Jiangpeng Dai, Adam C. ...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
MDPOP: faithful distributed implementation of efficient social choice problems
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2011
14 years 5 months ago
Composite Social Network for Predicting Mobile Apps Installation
We have carefully instrumented a large portion of the population living in a university graduate dormitory by giving participants Android smart phones running our sensing software...
Wei Pan, Nadav Aharony, Alex Pentland
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Teaching objects-first in introductory computer science
An objects-first strategy for teaching introductory computer science courses is receiving increased attention from CS educators. In this paper, we discuss the challenge of the obj...
Stephen Cooper, Wanda Dann, Randy Pausch
BCSHCI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Figuring configuration: "everyday" users and end-user configuration of pervasive computing environments
The research outlined investigates strategies that nonprogramming or “everyday” users may take in interaction with a Pervasive Computing Environment within relevant domains sp...
Thom Heslop