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CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Come meet me at Ulduar: progression raiding in world of warcraft
In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior— raiding—remains limited. Raiding is important because it en...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Jeffrey Nichols, Tyler Pace, Sha...
ICDE
2012
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Lookup Tables: Fine-Grained Partitioning for Distributed Databases
—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Layered elaboration: a new technique for co-design with children
As technology for children becomes more mobile, social, and distributed, our design methods and techniques must evolve to better explore these new directions. This paper reports o...
Greg Walsh, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Elizab...
PDC
2004
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
Personas is not applicable: local remedies interpreted in a wider context
One of the major problems with participatory design is that it is extremely difficult to apply it to current developments. Software development for the mass market is one aspect o...
Kari Rönkkö, Mats Hellman, Britta Kiland...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Sharing digital photographs in the home through physical mementos, souvenirs, and keepsakes
People now easily share digital photos outside the home via web publishing and gift-giving. Yet within the home, digital photos are hard to access and lack the physical affordance...
Michael Nunes, Saul Greenberg, Carman Neustaedter