Flipping HCI

Flipping HCI

This paper presents the results of two studies involving “flipping the classroom”. Teaching material was delivered via interactive “e-lectures”, allowing face-to-face sessions to focus instead on practice. The e-lectures were designed according to standard usability principles coupled with recent research into the effect of interactivity on learning. The effectiveness of the use of e-lectures w...

Flipping Pebbles

We are trying to understand exactly how complicated these orbits are. A moment’s thought reveals that the toggle operation is reversible, so the orbit of any sequence must be a cycle. A few computational experiments suggest that the length of the cycle associated with a sequence of length n is about 2 and thus has exponential length. This leads to a natural computational question that we will r...

Flipping Riboswitches

Riboswitches are common cis-acting regulatory elements in bacteria. They are made of nascent RNA that changes its conformation in response to direct binding of cognate metabolites. The publication of five high-resolution crystal structures provides a comprehensive view of how riboswitches sense their ligands and points to new challenges in this emerging field.

Collective Coin Flipping

Pancake Flipping Is Hard

Pancake Flipping is the problem of sorting a stack of pancakes of different sizes (that is, a permutation), when the only allowed operation is to insert a spatula anywhere in the stack and to flip the pancakes above it (that is, to perform a prefix reversal). In the burnt variant, one side of each pancake is marked as burnt, and it is required to finish with all pancakes having the burnt side d...