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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Gestures in the wild: studying multi-touch gesture sequences on interactive tabletop exhibits
In this paper we describe our findings from a field study that was conducted at the Vancouver Aquarium to investigate how visitors interact with a large interactive table exhibi...
Uta Hinrichs, Sheelagh Carpendale
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Breath control of amusement rides
Emerging robotic technologies are enabling the control of individual seats on rollercoasters and other thrill rides. We explore the potential of breathing as an effective and enga...
Joe Marshall, Duncan Rowland, Stefan Rennick Eggle...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Database engines on multicores, why parallelize when you can distribute?
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Jana Gic...
FAST
2011
14 years 10 months ago
A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Improving revisitation in graphs through static spatial features
People generally remember locations in visual spaces with respect to spatial features and landmarks. Geographical maps provide many spatial features and hence are easy to remember...
Sohaib Ghani, Niklas Elmqvist
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