As virtual worlds and games grow in both personal and cultural importance, present limitations in access to them is increasingly limiting their ability to achieve their potential....
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
This paper describes an ethnographic study conducted to explore the possibilities for future design and development of technological support for trauma teams. We videotaped 10 tra...
Aleksandra Sarcevic, Ivan Marsic, Michael E. Lesk,...
Adaptive resource management is critical to ensuring the quality of real-time distributed applications, particularly for energy-constrained mobile handheld devices. In this contex...
Minyoung Kim, Mark-Oliver Stehr, Carolyn L. Talcot...
Abstract. Social assistance constitutes an increasing problem in developed countries, which can be considered from two dimensions: the home and the hospital frameworks. Anyway, mos...
Gabriel Fiol-Roig, Diana Arellano, Francisco J. Pe...