"This is why we play"

DocPlayer : why doesn ’ t your desktop play this way ?

Document-management is becoming a central and troubling issue for typical users of computers; and the need for more intuitive, flexible, and effective management-systems is becoming more and more evident. This paper reports on work to develop DocPlayer, a solution inspired by the control-metaphor of media-players. First, other attempts to address the document-management problem are reviewed; th...

Health reform: remember why we got into this.

[This is how we do it].

The purpose of this article is to explore students' experiences of variations in practice and how this impacts on their learning. This is particularly pertinent in terms of reconfiguration of services instigated by the Department of Health's (DH) Making it better agenda (DH 2007), meaning that many qualified staff are moving hospitals and also experiencing changes in practice. Students are thus...

Why Flow-Completion Time is the Right metric for Congestion Control and why this means we need new algorithms

Users typically want their flows to complete as quickly as possible: They want a web-page to download quickly, or a file transfer to complete as rapidly as possible. In other words, Flow Completion Time (FCT) is an important arguably the most important performance metric for the user. Yet research on congestion control focuses almost entirely on maximizing flow throughput, link utilization and ...

This is not a game: play in cultural environments

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