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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
111views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Using daily student presentations to address attitudes and communication skills in CS1
Many CS1 courses lack a breadth in coverage of computing related topics and do not actively engage in nonprogramming computer science topics. In addition, many introductory (and...
Chris Bennett, Timothy Urness
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Waterbot: exploring feedback and persuasive techniques at the sink
This paper presents an exploration of user interfaces, persuasive interfaces and feedback techniques in the domain of the sink. Waterbot is a system to inform and motivate behavio...
Ernesto Arroyo, Leonardo Bonanni, Ted Selker
ETRA
2010
ACM
143views Biometrics» more  ETRA 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Space-variant spatio-temporal filtering of video for gaze visualization and perceptual learning
We introduce an algorithm for space-variant filtering of video based on a spatio-temporal Laplacian pyramid and use this algorithm to render videos in order to visualize prerecor...
Michael Dorr, Halszka Jarodzka, Erhardt Barth
CCGRID
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Exploiting Heterogeneity for Collective Data Downloading in Volunteer-based Networks
Abstract— Scientific computing is being increasingly deployed over volunteer-based distributed computing environments consisting of idle resources on donated user machines. A fu...
Jinoh Kim, Abhishek Chandra, Jon B. Weissman
HPDC
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Resource Availability Prediction in Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing Systems
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of computational resources available on the Internet. In FGCS, host computers allow guest jobs to utili...
Xiaojuan Ren, Seyong Lee, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurab...