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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Motionbeam: a metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors
We present the MotionBeam metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors. Our work draws from the tradition of pre-cinema handheld projectors that use direct physical...
Karl D. D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Takaaki Shirator...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Designing sports: a framework for exertion games
Exertion games require investing physical effort. The fact that such games can support physical health is tempered by our limited understanding of how to design for engaging exert...
Florian Mueller, Darren Edge, Frank Vetere, Martin...
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
ICDT
2011
ACM
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On the equivalence of distributed systems with queries and communication
Distributed data management systems consist of peers that store, exchange and process data in order to collaboratively achieve a common goal, such as evaluate some query. We study...
Serge Abiteboul, Balder ten Cate, Yannis Katsis