We conducted an ethnographic study to investigate the use of generic vs. task-specific application software by people who create and maintain presentation slides. Sixteen people w...
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Abstract-- In this paper we discuss the exploitation of aggregated mobility patterns and physical proximity of nodes in a so-called ambient network, i.e., a wireless network with h...
Leonardo Badia, Nicola Bui, Marco Miozzo, Michele ...
In this paper, we propose a new mobility model as an extension of the random walk model. Our proposal gathers mobility patterns with several degrees of randomness, so that both ran...
Little is known about the strategies end-user programmers use in debugging their programs, and even less is known about gender differences that may exist in these strategies. With...
Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Laura Beckwith, Valentina G...