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CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Strategies for accelerating on-line learning of hotkeys
Hotkeys are extremely useful in leveraging expert performance, but learning them is a slow process. This paper investigates alternative menu designs that can motivate and help use...
Tovi Grossman, Pierre Dragicevic, Ravin Balakrishn...
COMSUR
2011
228views Hardware» more  COMSUR 2011»
14 years 7 months ago
Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes: Survey and Implications
Sensor networks with battery-powered nodes can seldom simultaneously meet the design goals of lifetime, cost, sensing reliability and sensing and transmission coverage. Energy-har...
Sujesha Sudevalayam, Purushottam Kulkarni
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
On a service-oriented approach for an engineering knowledge desktop
Increasingly, manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to providing services. As a result, when designing new products, engineers must increasingly c...
Sylvia C. Wong, Richard M. Crowder, Gary B. Wills
DSN
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems
Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier o...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Mer...
CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Evolvable mechanics: Hardware tools for evolutionary robotics
Embodying robot morphologies evolved in simulation can present serious problems for an engineer when translating simplified simulated mechanisms into working devices, often drawing...
Bill Bigge Inman, R. Harvey