In providing High Performance computing (HPC) systems to research faculty at universities, research computing facilitators must often strike a balance between providing the most up-to-date versions of commonly used so...
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(纸本)9798350355543
In providing High Performance computing (HPC) systems to research faculty at universities, research computing facilitators must often strike a balance between providing the most up-to-date versions of commonly used software packages and libraries while also ensuring that the software ecosystem on the cluster is stable enough that version changes do not cause performance degradation to existing workflows. Additionally, the modern data centers where these ecosystems are running are very large, intricately complex systems that provide many points of failure. The sum of these two challenges present the need for tools that can help to ensure that these systems, and the software running on those systems, are continuing to perform at their expected levels. To this end, this paper will present a framework for Cluster analysis and Node Assessment for Resource Integrity that we call CANARI. CANARI was developed and used at the Rosen Center for Advanced computing (RCAC) to continuously monitor the availability of nodes in our clusters as well as their performance against synthetic benchmarks, ingest that performance data into a persistent database, mark nodes displaying performance regression offline, and provide summary reports and real-time updates to the Slack instance used at RCAC by using Slack's API.
Engagement with electronic toolkits enhances people's creative abilities, self-esteem, problem-solving skills and enables the creation of personally meaningful artifacts. A variety of simplifed electronics toolkit...
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(纸本)9781450391573
Engagement with electronic toolkits enhances people's creative abilities, self-esteem, problem-solving skills and enables the creation of personally meaningful artifacts. A variety of simplifed electronics toolkits are increasingly available to help diferent user groups engage with technology. However, they are often inaccessible for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs), who experience a range of cognitive and physical impairments. We designed and developed TronicBoards, a curated set of accessible electronic modules, to address this gap. We evaluated it one-on-one with 10 participants using a guided exploration approach. Our analysis revealed that participants were able to create simple sensor-based interactive circuits with varying levels of assistance. We report the strengths and weaknesses of TronicBoards, considering participants' successes and challenges in manipulating and comprehending toolkit components, circuit building activities, and troubleshooting processes. We discuss implications for designing inclusive electronics toolkits for people with IDs, particularly in considering design elements that improve functionality, comprehensibility and agency.
Apps for depression can increase access to mental health care but concerns abound with disparities between academic development of apps and those available through app stores. Reviews highlighted ethical shortcomings ...
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Workflow nets are a popular variant of Petri nets that allow for the algorithmic formal analysis of business processes. The central decision problems concerning workflow nets deal with soundness, where the initial and...
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Music can enhance our emotional reactions to videos and images, while videos and images can enrich our emotional response to music. Cross-modality retrieval technology can be used to recommend appropriate music for a ...
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Ensuring the integrity of petabyte-scale file transfers is essential for the data gathered from scientific instruments. As packet sizes increase, so does the likelihood of errors, resulting in a higher probability of ...
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Power storage technology is an important technical measure to transfer peak power, develop low valley power, optimize resource allocation and protect ecological environment. The promotion and application of energy sto...
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We present the frst large-scale longitudinal analysis of missing label accessibility failures in Android apps. We developed a crawler and collected monthly snapshots of 312 apps over 16 months. We use this unique data...
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(纸本)9781450391573
We present the frst large-scale longitudinal analysis of missing label accessibility failures in Android apps. We developed a crawler and collected monthly snapshots of 312 apps over 16 months. We use this unique dataset in empirical examinations of accessibility not possible in prior datasets. Key large-scale fndings include missing label failures in 55.6% of unique image-based elements, longitudinal improvement in ImageButton elements but not in more prevalent ImageView elements, that 8.8% of unique screens are unreachable without navigating at least one missing label failure, that app failure rate does not improve with number of downloads, and that effective labeling is neither limited to nor guaranteed by large software organizations. We then examine longitudinal data in individual apps, presenting illustrative examples of accessibility impacts of systematic improvements, incomplete improvements, interface redesigns, and accessibility regressions. We discuss these fndings and potential opportunities for tools and practices to improve label-based accessibility.
The proceedings contain 637 papers. The topics discussed include: ‘I don’t want people to look at me differently’: designing user-defined above-the-neck gestures for people with upper body motor impairments;underst...
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(纸本)9781450391573
The proceedings contain 637 papers. The topics discussed include: ‘I don’t want people to look at me differently’: designing user-defined above-the-neck gestures for people with upper body motor impairments;understanding gesture input articulation with upper-body wearables for users with upper-body motor impairments;identifying factors that inhibit self-care behavior among individuals with severe spinal cord injury;understanding how people with limited mobility use multi-modal input;VocabEncounter: NMT-powered vocabulary learning by presenting computer-generated usages of foreign words into users’ daily lives;Affinder: expressing concepts of situations that afford activities using context-detectors;two heads are better than one: a dimension space for unifying human and artificial intelligence in shared control;supporting serendipitous discovery and balanced analysis of online product reviews with interaction-driven metrics and bias-mitigating suggestions;shared interest: measuring human-AI alignment to identify recurring patterns in model behavior;and scaling creative inspiration with fine-grained functional aspects of product ideas.
Image-based mapping and localization offer six degrees of freedom (6DoF) pose estimation for immersive applications. This is achieved by matching, on a server, 2D visual features extracted from a mobile device's c...
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(纸本)9798400714795
Image-based mapping and localization offer six degrees of freedom (6DoF) pose estimation for immersive applications. This is achieved by matching, on a server, 2D visual features extracted from a mobile device's camera view and 3D features stored in a map. While effective, this process may lead to privacy breaches (e.g., exposure of sensitive information captured by camera views). To tackle this crucial issue, we present PIPE, a first-of-its-kind Privacy-preserving Image-based 6DoF Pose Estimation system. The design of PIPE is motivated by our key observation that uploading only a small amount of features extracted from camera views for pose estimation could reduce privacy leakage. However, trade-offs exist between privacy preservation, system utility (i.e., pose estimation accuracy), and system performance (e.g., end-to-end latency). To balance the trade-offs, PIPE deliberately explores the feature-detection space to reduce computation latency, designs an efficient feature ranking method by judiciously utilizing map data, and optimizes feature selection by jointly considering the features' ranking and spatial distribution to improve pose estimation accuracy. Moreover, we construct a learning-based metric to quantify the extent of privacy leakage in images. Our extensive performance evaluation reveals that PIPE can effectively preserve privacy and reduce end-to-end latency by up to 22.6%, while marginally affecting pose estimation accuracy (e.g., as low as 2.7%).
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