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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards the perfect infrastructure for usability testing on mobile devices
In this paper, we describe various setups that allow usability professionals to conduct effective user studies on mobile devices. We describe the factors relevant when building a ...
Rudy Schusteritsch, Carolyn Y. Wei, Mark LaRosa
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
"Girls don't waste time": pre-adolescent attitudes toward ICT
Relying on naturalistic observation, via video selfdocumentaries, contextual interviews, and focus groups, we explored gender differences in the information and communication tech...
Weimin Hou, Manpreet Kaur, Anita Komlodi, Wayne G....
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
What a to-do: studies of task management towards the design of a personal task list manager
This paper reports on the results of studies of task management to support the design of a task list manager. We examined the media used to record and organize to-dos and tracked ...
Victoria Bellotti, Brinda Dalal, Nathaniel Good, P...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Towards energy efficient VoIP over wireless LANs
Wireless LAN (WLAN) radios conserve energy by staying in sleep mode. With real-time applications like VoIP, it is not clear how much energy can be saved by this approach since pac...
Vinod Namboodiri, Lixin Gao
DCC
2005
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Towards Practical Minimum-Entropy Universal Decoding
Minimum-entropy decoding is a universal decoding algorithm used in decoding block compression of discrete memoryless sources as well as block transmission of information across di...
Todd P. Coleman, Muriel Médard, Michelle Ef...