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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A survey of software learnability: metrics, methodologies and guidelines
It is well-accepted that learnability is an important aspect of usability, yet there is little agreement as to how learnability should be defined, measured, and evaluated. In this...
Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzmaurice, Ramtin Attar
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Environmental sustainability and interaction
By its nature, the discipline of human computer interaction must take into consideration the issues that are most pertinent to humans. We believe that the CHI community faces an u...
Jennifer Mankoff, Eli Blevis, Alan Borning, Batya ...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Implications for designing the user experience of DVD menus
DVD menus often miss out on usability and are complex and difficult to navigate through. One of the main problems is the lack of design standards. By conducting an expert walkthro...
Thomas Költringer, Martin Tomitsch, Karin Kap...
ICCD
2004
IEEE
87views Hardware» more  ICCD 2004»
16 years 3 months ago
Fetch Halting on Critical Load Misses
As the performance gap between processors and memory systems increases, the CPU spends more time stalled waiting for data from main memory. Critical long latency instructions, suc...
Nikil Mehta, Brian Singer, R. Iris Bahar, Michael ...
SOSP
2001
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Anticipatory scheduling: A disk scheduling framework to overcome deceptive idleness in synchronous I/O
Disk schedulers in current operating systems are generally work-conserving, i.e., they schedule a request as soon as the previous request has finished. Such schedulers often requ...
Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel