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SOSP
2005
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
FS2: dynamic data replication in free disk space for improving disk performance and energy consumption
Disk performance is increasingly limited by its head positioning latencies, i.e., seek time and rotational delay. To reduce the head positioning latencies, we propose a novel tech...
Hai Huang, Wanda Hung, Kang G. Shin
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Now let me see where i was: understanding how lifelogs mediate memory
Lifelogging technologies can capture both mundane and important experiences in our daily lives, resulting in a rich record of the places we visit and the things we see. This study...
Vaiva Kalnikaité, Abigail Sellen, Steve Whi...
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
The design and evaluation of an end-user-deployable, whole house, contactless power consumption sensor
We present the design, development, and evaluation of an end-user installable, whole house power consumption sensing system capable of gathering accurate real-time power use that ...
Shwetak N. Patel, Sidhant Gupta, Matthew S. Reynol...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Optimal scanning for faster object detection
Recent years have seen the development of fast and accurate algorithms for detecting objects in images. However, as the size of the scene grows, so do the running-times of these a...
Nicholas J. Butko, Javier R. Movellan
HRI
2009
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
An affective guide robot in a shopping mall
To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, ...