Humans use computers to carry out tasks that neither is able to do easily alone: humans provide eyes, hands, and judgment while computers provide computation, networking, and stor...
Elsa L. Gunter, Ayesha Yasmeen, Carl A. Gunter, An...
As virtual worlds evolve, so does the visual complexity and customizability of the avatars inside the worlds. In virtual worlds such as Second Life, prospering virtual fashion ind...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Tyler Pace, Laura Brunetti, Qian...
Distributed systems are difficult to design and develop. The difficulties arise both in basic safety correctness properties, and in achieving high performance. As a result of this...
Variants of the decentralized MDP model focus on problems exhibiting some special structure that makes them easier to solve in practice. Our work is concerned with two main issues...
The domestic environment is more than a place where to live. It is a "territory of meaning", a place where pleasure, affect and aesthetics are deeply interwoven with the...
Chiara Leonardi, Claudio Mennecozzi, Elena Not, Fa...