Name
Abstract | ||
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Recent years have seen the evolution of networks of tiny low power computing blocks, known as sensor networks. In one class of sensor networks, a non-expert user, who has little or no experience with electronics or programming, selects, connects and/or configures one or more blocks such that the blocks compute a particular Boolean logic function of sensor values. We describe a series of experiments showing that non-expert users have much difficulty with a block based on Boolean logic truth tables, and that a logic block having a sentence-like structure with some configurable switches yields a better success rate. We also show that a particular use of color with a truth table improves results over a traditional truth table. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1145/1056808.1057058 | Computer Human Interaction |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
better success rate,logic configuration,embedded computing systems,non-expert user,logic block,boolean logic,boolean logic truth table,truth table,particular use,sensor network,particular boolean logic function,traditional truth table,eblocks,sensor networks,sensor value,embedded computing | Logic gate,Digital electronics,Boolean circuit,Computer science,Truth table,Theoretical computer science,Boolean algebra,Logic block,Logic family,Circuit minimization for Boolean functions | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-59593-002-7 | 10 | 0.82 |
References | Authors | |
13 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Cotterell | 1 | 109 | 8.40 |
| Frank Vahid | 2 | 2688 | 218.00 |