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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Placing a value on aesthetics in online casual games
Game designers frequently invest in aesthetic improvements such as music, sound effects, and animations. However, their exact value for attracting and retaining players remains un...
Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Rich Snider, Roy Szeto,...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequ...
Alexander J. Quinn, Benjamin B. Bederson
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Mediated parent-child contact in work-separated families
Parents and children in families living with regular separation due to work develop strategies to manage being apart. We interviewed 14 pairs of parents and children (ages 7 – 1...
Svetlana Yarosh, Gregory D. Abowd
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
EDBT
2011
ACM
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On (not) indexing quadratic form distance by metric access methods
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Tomás Skopal, Tomás Bartos, Jakub Lo...