Optimal index assignment of multiple description lattice vector quantizer (MDLVQ) can be posed as a large-scale linear assignment problem. But is this expensive algorithmic approa...
— People play games for fun. Yet we are lacking a fundamental understanding of what fun is and how fun works in games and other media. For example, why do thousands of people spe...
This paper reports the results of a laboratory study of a proposed solution to the problem of coordinating entry into collaborative activity while protecting the privacy and contr...
Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
Proactivity has recently arisen as one of the focus areas within HCI. Proactive systems adhere to two premises: 1) working on behalf of, or pro, the user, and 2) acting on their o...