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PERSUASIVE
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Happier Together: Integrating a Wellness Application into a Social Network Site
What are the benefits and drawbacks of integrating health and wellness interventions into existing online social network websites? In this paper, we report on a case study of deplo...
Sean A. Munson, Debra Lauterbach, Mark W. Newman, ...
ISADS
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Fault Tolerance in Decentralized Systems
: In a decentralised system the problems of fault tolerance, and in particular error recovery, vary greatly depending on the design assumptions. For example, in a distributed datab...
Brian Randell
WETICE
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Authorization and Attribute Certificates for Widely Distributed Access Control
We describe a system whose purpose is to explore the use of certificates for the distributed management of access rights for resources that have multiple, independent, and geograp...
William E. Johnston, Srilekha Mudumbai, Mary R. Th...
WETICE
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Semantic Approach of Virtual Worlds Interoperability
This paper presents semantic approach for a solution of the problem of interoperability for virtual worlds. The semantic of virtual worlds and virtual entities is described using ...
Michel Soto, Sébastien Allongue
CANDT
2009
15 years 10 months ago
Supportive communication, sense of virtual community and health outcomes in online infertility groups
Women are turning to online health groups to deal with the stresses and complications of infertility. Online groups may provide a resource that is potentially absent in their face...
Jennifer L. Welbourne, Anita L. Blanchard, Marla D...