Evaluating the usability of an application is a crucial activity in systems development projects. It is often done collaboratively, involving groups of current or future users, us...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ann L. Fruhling, Anita Chakrap...
Power consumption is a troublesome design constraint for emergent systems such as IBM’s BlueGene /L. If current trends continue, future petaflop systems will require 100 megawat...
We present Build-by-Number, a technique for quickly designing architectural structures that can be rendered photorealistically at interactive rates. We combine image-based capturi...
This paper describes an ambient intelligent prototype known as socio-ec(h)o. socio-ec(h)o explores the design and implementation of a system for sensing and display, user modeling...
Ron Wakkary, Marek Hatala, Robb Lovell, Milena Dro...
While the canonical behavior of today’s home Internet users involves several residents concurrently executing diverse Internet applications, the most common home configuration ...
Jon Gretarsson, Feng Li, Mingzhe Li, Ashish Samant...