Desktop management is probably the most resource-consuming task for the typical operations and support team, regardless of being frequently overlooked as not as complex or specialized as core network operations and management. Nowadays this scenario is even worst, since the increasing number and complexity of desktop systems was not matched by satisfactory management solutions – despite the rel...

BACKGROUND Desktop virtual environments (VEs) are increasingly deployed to study the effects of environmental qualities and interventions on human behavior and safety related concerns in built environments. For these applications it is essential that users appraise the affective qualities of the VE similar to those of its real world counterpart. Previous studies have shown that factors like sim...

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a PC management solution for enterprise desktop administrators. VDI is a server-based computing offering that provides desktop environments as an enterprise hosted service. VDI allows administrators to maintain and manage all user applications, data, and environments in the centrally located data center. VDI provides a true, isolated PC environment...

This study is about the evaluation of non-immersive desktop web-based photorealistic virtual environments using think-aloud protocol and heuristic evaluation to determine three aims: (1) whether applying the same usability evaluation methodologies result in additional usability guideline categoriesidentified from the Koykka, Ollikainen, Ranta-aho, Milszus, Wasserroth and Friedrich 1999 study; (...

In this paper, we present preliminary work on the evaluation of tool extensions we built based on our semantic desktop framework X-COSIM. We discuss different experiments for evaluating tools of a semantic desktop and present our tool extensions COSIMail, COSIFile, and SAM. We explain in detail the setup of a laboratory study designed to gain summative results that enable a comparison of our to...

This paper describes our work on Desktop Robotics. The main focus is two robots that locomote and manipulate paper on a desktop. One robot uses wheels for both manipulation and locomotion. The other robot uses wheels for locomotion and a sticky foot to lift and carry pieces of paper. We outline the goals of our work on desktop robotics, describe the design of the robots built so far, present ex...

Advances in digital design and fabrication technologies are leading toward single fabrication systems capable of producing almost any complete functional object. We are proposing a new paradigm for manufacturing, which we call Universal Desktop Fabrication (UDF), and a framework for its development. UDF will be a coherent system of volumetric digital design software able to handle infinite comp...

Emerging technologies will change the future use of geographic information systems (GISs), moving GISs from the office desktops into the users’ hands. Current GIS architectures focus on a static environment in which a user sits at a workstation to perform spatial analysis. With the advent of ubiquitous computing, this setting will change dramatically. Devices that combine a hand-held computer w...

Traditionally, the scale and scope of an experimental study was determined by the ability of the research team to generate data. Over the past few years, we have been experiencing an unprecedented increase in the ability of small teams of experimental scientists to generate data. This has led to a shift in the balance between the di erent components of an experimental study. Today, it is not un...

Before the creation of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, the Amazigh language has not have the ability to take the advantages of information and communication technologies, even to be written in its native writing system "Tifinaghe". To overcome these limitations, the Amazigh language has undergone a process of standardization and integration into information and communication technologie...