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HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Applying pervasive technologies to create economic incentives that alter consumer behavior
Economic incentives are a powerful way of shaping consumer behavior towards more commercially efficient and environmentally sustainable patterns. In this paper, we explore the id...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...
SC
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A Comparative Study of the NAS MG Benchmark across Parallel Languages and Architectures
Hierarchical algorithms such as multigrid applications form an important cornerstone for scientific computing. In this study, we take a first step toward evaluating parallel lan...
Bradford L. Chamberlain, Steven J. Deitz, Lawrence...
ECOOPW
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Piccola - A Small Composition Language
Moore’s Law is pushing us inevitably towards a world of pervasive, wireless, spontaneously networked computing devices. Whatever these devices do, they will have to talk to and n...
Oscar Nierstrasz
RT
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Fidelity of Graphics Reconstructions: A Psychophysical Investigation
In this paper we develop a technique for measuring the perceptual equivalence of a graphical scene to a real scene. Ability to compare images is valuable in computer graphics for a...
Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, Erik ...
DUX
2007
15 years 10 months ago
Responsibilities and implications: further thoughts on ethnography and design
Many researchers and practitioners in user experience design have turned towards social sciences to find ways to understand the social contexts in which both users and technologie...
Paul Dourish