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View article: Telejam: From Low Latency to No Latency
Telejam: From Low Latency to No Latency Open
In this paper we describe Telejam, a novel web app for networked musical performance that connects players worldwide and allows them to play together in synchrony without regard to the time delays due to the distances between them.
View article: An Assessment of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Task Performance in Crowdsourcing Markets
An Assessment of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Task Performance in Crowdsourcing Markets Open
Crowdsourced labor markets represent a powerful new paradigm for accomplishing work. Understanding the motivating factors that lead to high quality work could have significant benefits. However, researchers have so far found that motivatin…
View article: Unmet Needs and Opportunities for Mobile Translation AI
Unmet Needs and Opportunities for Mobile Translation AI Open
Translation apps and devices are often presented in the context of providing assistance while traveling abroad. However, the spectrum of needs for cross-language communication is much wider. To investigate these needs, we conducted three s…
View article: Usnea: An Authorship Tool for Interactive Fiction using Retrieval Based Semantic Parsing
Usnea: An Authorship Tool for Interactive Fiction using Retrieval Based Semantic Parsing Open
The reader of a choose your own adventure novel and the user of a modern virtual assistant have a subtle similarity; both may, through the right lens, be viewed as engaging with a work of Interactive Fiction. This literary form emerged in …
View article: Magnetic input for mobile virtual reality
Magnetic input for mobile virtual reality Open
Modern smartphones can create compelling virtual reality (VR) experiences through the use of VR enclosures, devices that encase the phone and project stereoscopic renderings through lenses into the user's eyes. Since the touch screen in su…