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SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Quantifying the sustainability impact of data center availability
Data center availability is critical considering the explosive growth in Internet services and people’s dependence on them. Furthermore, in recent years, sustainability has beco...
Manish Marwah, Paulo Romero Martins Maciel, Amip S...
SPATIALCOGNITION
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Can Mirror-Reading Reverse the Flow of Time?
Abstract. Across cultures, people conceptualize time as if it flows along a horizontal timeline, but the direction of this implicit timeline is culture-specific: in cultures with l...
Daniel Casasanto, Roberto Bottini
SPATIALCOGNITION
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Verbally Annotated Tactile Maps - Challenges and Approaches
Survey knowledge of spatial environments can be successfully conveyed by visual maps. For visually impaired people, tactile maps have been proposed as a substitute. The latter are ...
Christian Graf
AVI
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Seeing the self in the washing machine: the deep affordance of 2.0 philosophy in the household appliance domain
The acceleration of rhythm of everyday life requires efficiency and flexibility in daily routines. The real expectations and needs of people concerning intelligent home devices sh...
Caterina Calefato, Enrico Frumento, Monica Milani,...
EUROSSC
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Identifying Important Action Primitives for High Level Activity Recognition
Smart homes have a user centered design that makes human activity as the most important type of context to adapt the environment according to people's needs. Sensor systems th...
Atif Manzoor, Claudia Villalonga, Alberto Calatron...