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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya
We describe our approach and initial results in the participatory design of technology relevant to local rural livelihoods. Our approach to design and usability proceeds from rese...
Kevin Walker, Joshua Underwood, Timothy Mwololo Wa...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Tableau machine: an alien presence in the home
Research in Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing has put computational devices into many social settings while leaving intact much of the "task support and informati...
Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Types, bytes, and separation logic
We present a formal model of memory that both captures the lowlevel features of C's pointers and memory, and that forms the basis for an expressive implementation of separati...
Harvey Tuch, Gerwin Klein, Michael Norrish
PODS
2003
ACM
114views Database» more  PODS 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin
PODS
2006
ACM
134views Database» more  PODS 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Approximate quantiles and the order of the stream
Recently, there has been an increased focus on modeling uncertainty by distributions. Suppose we wish to compute a function of a stream whose elements are samples drawn independen...
Sudipto Guha, Andrew McGregor