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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Listening to programmers - Taxonomies and characteristics of comments in operating system code
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge t...
Yoann Padioleau, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Scrolling behaviour with single- and multi-column layout
The standard layout model used by web browsers is to lay text out in a vertical scroll using a single column. The horizontal-scroll layout model--in which text is laid out in colu...
Cameron Braganza, Kim Marriott, Peter Moulder, Mic...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
mFerio: the design and evaluation of a peer-to-peer mobile payment system
In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a nearfield communication-based mobile p2p payment application called mFerio which is designed to replace cash-based transac...
Rajesh Krishna Balan, Narayan Ramasubbu, Komsit Pr...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Predictability and accuracy in adaptive user interfaces
While proponents of adaptive user interfaces tout potential performance gains, critics argue that adaptation's unpredictability may disorient users, causing more harm than go...
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Desney S. T...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Acceptance of augmented reality instructions in a real work setting
The differences between Augmented Reality (AR) systems and computer display based systems create a need for a different approach to the design and development of AR systems. To un...
Björn J. E. Johansson, Susanna Nilsson