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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
NetTube: Exploring Social Networks for Peer-to-Peer Short Video Sharing
—The recent three years have witnessed an explosion of networked video sharing, represented by YouTube, as a new killer Internet application. Their sustainable development howeve...
Xu Cheng, Jiangchuan Liu
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Collaborating to remember: a distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments
Individuals with cognitive deficits and their families are prime examples of collaborative "systems" that seek to perform everyday tasks together. Yet there has been lit...
Mike Wu, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Brian Richards, Rona...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Atomate it! end-user context-sensitive automation using heterogeneous information sources on the web
The transition of personal information management (PIM) tools off the desktop to the Web presents an opportunity to augment these tools with capabilities provided by the wealth o...
Max Van Kleek, Brennan Moore, David R. Karger, Pau...
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 4 months ago
vSked: an interactive visual schedule system for use in classrooms for children with autism
Children with autism often experience substantial challenges in understanding, structuring, and predicting the activities in their daily lives. The use of symbols to represent a s...
Michael T. Yeganyan, Meg Cramer, Lou Anne Boyd, Gi...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Design, adoption, and assessment of a socio-technical environment supporting independence for persons with cognitive disabilitie
A significant fraction of persons with cognitive disabilities are potentially able to live more independently with the use of powerful tools embedded in their social environment. ...
Stefan Carmien, Gerhard Fischer