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FIS
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Energy Consumption Information Services for Smart Home Inhabitants
We investigate services giving users an adequate insight on his or her energy consumption habits in order to optimize it in the long run. The explored energy awareness services are...
Michael Schwanzer, Anna Fensel
FAST
2009
15 years 4 months ago
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-optimizing Storage Systems
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
HCI
2009
15 years 4 months ago
A New Approach to Design an Interactive System for Molecular Analysis
The rapid evolution of molecule's imaging and observation's techniques has caused a growing interest in studying molecular structures. Naturally, scientists have turned t...
Mouna Essabbah, Samir Otmane, Joan Hérisson...
HCI
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Learning via Social Cognitive Theory and Digital Cultural Ecosystems
This paper will look at the human predisposition to oral tradition and its effectiveness as a learning tool to convey mission-critical information. After exploring the effectivenes...
Joseph Juhnke, Adam R. Kallish
CSCL
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Using activity theory to understand intergenerational play: The case of Family Quest
We implemented a five-week family program called Family Quest where parents and children ages 9 to 13 played Quest Atlantis, a multiuser 3D educational computer game, at a local af...
Sinem Siyahhan, Sasha A. Barab, Michael P. Downton