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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
DICE: designing conference rooms for usability
One of the core challenges now facing smart rooms is supporting realistic, everyday activities. While much research has been done to push forward the frontiers of novel interactio...
Gene Golovchinsky, Pernilla Qvarfordt, Bill van Me...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
94views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
CS1 students speak: advice for students by students
We collected advice on how to succeed at learning to program from 164 CS1 students at 3 institutions during a "saying is believing"intervention designed to encourage a g...
Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Carol Zander, Laurie Murp...
PODS
2004
ACM
96views Database» more  PODS 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Roads, Codes and Spatiotemporal Queries
We present a novel coding-based technique for answering spatial and spatiotemporal queries on objects moving along a system of curves on the plane such as many road networks. We h...
Sandeep Gupta, Swastik Kopparty, Chinya V. Ravisha...
EDBT
2004
ACM
139views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Efficient Distributed Skylining for Web Information Systems
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Jason Xin Zh...
EDBT
2004
ACM
119views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
NNH: Improving Performance of Nearest-Neighbor Searches Using Histograms
Efficient search for nearest neighbors (NN) is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper we propose a novel techniq...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li