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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Sabbath day home automation: "it's like mixing technology and religion"
We present a qualitative study of 20 American Orthodox Jewish families' use of home automation for religious purposes. These lead users offer insight into real-life, longterm...
Allison Woodruff, Sally Augustin, Brooke E. Foucau...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Distract-R: rapid prototyping and evaluation of in-vehicle interfaces
As driver distraction from in-vehicle devices increasingly becomes a concern on our roadways, researchers have searched for better scientific understanding of distraction along wi...
Dario D. Salvucci, Mark Zuber, Ekaterina Beregovai...
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Making love in the network closet: the benefits and work of family videochat
In this paper, we explore the benefits of videochat for families and the corresponding work that home users engage in to make a video call run smoothly. We explore the varieties o...
Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spasojevic, Morgan ...
HRI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services
— Robots that operate in the real world will make mistakes. Thus, those who design and build systems will need to understand how best to provide ways for robots to mitigate those...
Min Kyung Lee, Sara Kielser, Jodi Forlizzi, Siddha...
SC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Lessons learned from a year's worth of benchmarks of large data clouds
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
Yunhong Gu, Robert L. Grossman