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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Evaluation of a role-based approach for customizing a complex development environment
Coarse-grained approaches to customization allow the user to enable or disable groups of features at once, rather than individual features. While this may reduce the complexity of...
Leah Findlater, Joanna McGrenere, David Modjeska
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Towards developing assistive haptic feedback for visually impaired internet users
Haptic technologies are thought to have the potential to help blind individuals overcome the challenges experienced when accessing the Web. This paper proposes a structured partic...
Ravi Kuber, Wai Yu, Graham McAllister
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
GPUQP: query co-processing using graphics processors
We present GPUQP, a relational query engine that employs both CPUs and GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for in-memory query co-processing. GPUs are commodity processors traditiona...
Rui Fang, Bingsheng He, Mian Lu, Ke Yang, Naga K. ...
HRI
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Service robots in the domestic environment: a study of the roomba vacuum in the home
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...
Jodi Forlizzi, Carl F. DiSalvo
SAC
2005
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
Discovering parametric clusters in social small-world graphs
We present a strategy for analyzing large, social small-world graphs, such as those formed by human networks. Our approach brings together ideas from a number of different resear...
Jonathan McPherson, Kwan-Liu Ma, Michael Ogawa