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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
No task left behind?: examining the nature of fragmented work
We present data from detailed observation of 24 information workers that shows that they experience work fragmentation as common practice. We consider that work fragmentation has ...
Gloria Mark, Justin Harris, Víctor M. Gonz&...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Interaction in 4-second bursts: the fragmented nature of attentional resources in mobile HCI
When on the move, cognitive resources are reserved partly for passively monitoring and reacting to contexts and events, and partly for actively constructing them. The Resource Com...
Antti Oulasvirta, Sakari Tamminen, Virpi Roto, Jaa...
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
NiCEBook: supporting natural note taking
In this paper, we present NiCEBook, a paper notebook that supports taking, structuring and reusing notes. Through a study of note-taking habits, we observed that different strateg...
Peter Brandl, Christoph Richter, Michael Haller
ICCV
2011
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A String of Feature Graphs Model for Recognition of Complex Activities in Natural Videos
Videos usually consist of activities involving interactions between multiple actors, sometimes referred to as complex activities. Recognition of such activities requires modeling ...
Utkarsh Gaur, Yingying Zhu, Bi Song, Amit Roy-Chow...
WMCSA
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
The obscure nature of epidemic quorum systems
Epidemic quorum systems enable highly available agreement even when a quorum is not simultaneously connected, and are therefore very interesting for mobile networks. Although rece...
João Barreto, Paulo Ferreira