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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
Motionbeam: a metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors
We present the MotionBeam metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors. Our work draws from the tradition of pre-cinema handheld projectors that use direct physical...
Karl D. D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Takaaki Shirator...
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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14 years 10 months ago
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...
FOGA
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Approximating the distribution of fitness over hamming regions
The distribution of fitness values across a set of states sharply influences the dynamics of evolutionary processes and heuristic search in combinatorial optimization. In this p...
Andrew M. Sutton, Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe