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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Beyond the desktop"”.
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Interactive Visualization Lenses:
… relevant in diverse application domains among them biology, software-engineering, and business finance. These data visualizations benefit from the display space provided by novel interactive large display environments. However, these environments also cause new challenges and result in new …
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Technology outreach programs : their impact on middle-school students and their families from underserved communities
The goal of this study is to provide a better understanding of the impact of outreach programs designed to impart technology skills to middle-school students from underserved communities, on both participants and their families. An outreach program, called Hi-Tec CompNow, was chosen for this study. …
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A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder
… advances in hardware technology have enabled the proliferation of faster, cheaper, and more capable personal computers. Users of all backgrounds rely on their computers to handle ever-expanding information, communication, and computation needs. As users spend more time interacting with their …
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Human-centred computer architecture: redesigning the mobile datastore and sharing interface
… and communication practices as well as with the mobile and cloud architectures that increasingly mediate such practices. With this perspective, I uncover a shifting emphasis of how data is stored on mobile devices and how this data is made available to apps through sharing interfaces that …
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HyperCube: as novas metáforas e algoritmos para conceção de interfaces, leitura imersiva e visualização da informação
… restritos aos paradigmas da metáfora do desktop. Esta tese propõe o modelo HyperCube como um conjunto de metáforas e algoritmos focada na Computação Centrada na Pessoa, baseada em hardware e software avançados, independente de dispositivo que explora as capacidades cognitivas-espaciais do …