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OOPSLA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Paul Adamczyk, Munawar Hafiz
PERCOM
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
PerFallD: A pervasive fall detection system using mobile phones
Falls are a major health risk that diminish the quality of life among elderly people. With the elderly population surging, especially with aging "baby boomers", fall dete...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting mobility events on personal devices
High-end mobile phones are quickly becoming versatile sensing platforms, capable of continuously capturing the dynamic context of their owners through various sensors. A change in...
Arjan J. H. Peddemors, Henk Eertink, Ignas G. Niem...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Trying too hard: effects of mobile agents' (Inappropriate) social expressiveness on trust, affect and compliance
Mobile services can provide users with information relevant to their current circumstances. Distant services in turn can acquire local information from people in an area of intere...
Henriette S. M. Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Tim van Slo...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Adaptive pose priors for pictorial structures
Pictorial structure (PS) models are extensively used for part-based recognition of scenes, people, animals and multi-part objects. To achieve tractability, the structure and param...
Benjamin Sapp, Chris Jordan, Ben Taskar