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Supporting Flexible and Transparent User Interface Distribution Across Mobile Devices
No full textThe growing trend of multi-device ownerships creates opportunities to use applications across devices. However, the current methods of app development/usage remain in the single-device paradigm, which is far below user expectations. For example, it is currently impossible for users to dynamically partition an existing app across different devices to utilize multiple surfaces. We introduce FLUID , a novel multi-device platform that supports simultaneous operation of multiple devices. FLUID aims to i) distribute the user interfaces (UIs) of a single app across multiple devices, ii) support unmodified legacy apps without extra engineering, and iii) support numerous apps with customized UIs. Previous approaches, like screen mirroring and app migration, do not satisfy those goals altogether. However, FLUID is designed to satisfy the goals. It can efficiently deploy UI objects to different devices by identifying only UI states necessary for accurate rendering. And FLUID can execute the distributed UI objects by supporting cross-device method invocations transparently and synchronizing the replicated UIs across devices. Furthermore, FLUID automatically handles unexpected events that may degrade its usability by efficiently maintaining the distributed UIs up to date. Our evaluation using 20 legacy apps shows that FLUID can transparently support numerous apps and is fast enough for interactive use.
FLUID: FLEXIBLE USER INTERFACE DISTRIBUTION FOR UBIQUITOUS MULTI-DEVICE INTERACTION
No full textA recent trend in the global mobile/IoT industry is the emergence of next-generation smart devices with various screens, thus mobile/IoT market leaders are highly focused on building a new multi-device computing ecosystem based on such new smart devices. Market leaders are not only simply varying their screen sizes, but also competitively launching new devices equipped with innovative screens like foldable and dual-screen phones. However, the current mobile computing ecosystem is restricted by the single device paradigm that allows a user to interact with only one screen tethered to a single device, limiting the potential that the emerging multi-device computing trend provides.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
X-Droid
No full textWe present X-Droid, a framework that provides Android app developers an ability to quickly and easily produce functional prototypes. Our work is motivated by the need for such ability and the lack of tools that provide it. Developers want to produce a functional prototype rapidly to test out potential features in real-life situations. However, current prototyping tools for mobile apps are limited to creating non-functional UI mockups that do not demonstrate actual features. With X-Droid, developers can create a new app that imports various kinds of functionality provided by other existing Android apps. In doing so, developers do not need to understand how other Android apps are implemented or need access to their source code. X-Droid provides a developer tool that enables developers to use the UIs of other Android apps and import desired functions into their prototypes. X-Droid also provides a run-time system that executes other apps' functionality in the background on off-the-shelf Android devices for seamless integration. Our evaluation shows that with the help of X-Droid, a developer imported a function from an existing Android app into a new prototype with only 51 lines of Java code, while the function itself requires 10, 334 lines of Java code to implement (i.e., 200× improvement)
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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