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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Software Development Environments for Scientific and Engineering Software: A Series of Case Studies
The need for high performance computing applications for computational science and engineering projects is growing rapidly, yet there have been few detailed studies of the softwar...
Jeffrey C. Carver, Richard P. Kendall, Susan E. Sq...
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
More than meets the eye: an exploratory study of context photography
In context photography, sensors gather real-time context information, which visually affects a photograph as it is taken. We have implemented a prototype running on standard camer...
Maria Håkansson, Lalya Gaye, Sara Ljungblad,...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
ISVC
2005
Springer
16 years 22 days ago
Comparing Sphere-Tree Generators and Hierarchy Updates for Deformable Objects Collision Detection
Abstract. This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of the accuracy of different sphere-tree construction methods when they are used in deformable bodies. The methods evaluate...
M. Garcia, S. Bayona, Pablo Toharia, C. Mendoza