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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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CS1 students speak: advice for students by students
We collected advice on how to succeed at learning to program from 164 CS1 students at 3 institutions during a "saying is believing"intervention designed to encourage a g...
Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Carol Zander, Laurie Murp...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A methodology for extracting temporal properties from sensor network data streams
The extraction of temporal characteristics from sensor data streams can reveal important properties about the sensed events. Knowledge of temporal characteristics in applications ...
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Athanasios Bamis, Andreas...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups
The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One o...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Gonzalo Ramos, M...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Stirring up experience through movement in game play: effects on engagement and social behaviour
The recent development of controllers designed around natural body movements has altered the nature of gaming and contributed towards it being marketed as a more social activity. ...
James Le Couteur, Nadia Berthouze, Siân E. L...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Wedge: clutter-free visualization of off-screen locations
To overcome display limitations of small-screen devices, researchers have proposed techniques that point users to objects located off-screen. Arrow-based techniques such as City L...
Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin, Pou...