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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Software or wetware?: discovering when and why people use digital prosthetic memory
Our lives are full of memorable and important moments, as well as important items of information. The last few years have seen the proliferation of digital devices intended to sup...
Steve Whittaker, Vaiva Kalnikaité
CCS
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
KNOW Why your access was denied: regulating feedback for usable security
We examine the problem of providing useful feedback about access control decisions to users while controlling the disclosure of the system’s security policies. Relevant feedback...
Apu Kapadia, Geetanjali Sampemane, Roy H. Campbell
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci
HT
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
What is an analogue for the semantic web and why is having one important?
This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only unde...
m. c. schraefel
PUC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Technology scruples: why intimidation will not save the recording industry and how enchantment might
While the recording industry continues to lobby for increasingly draconian laws to protect their interests, users of digital technology continue to share files and copy protected ...
Mark Blythe, Peter C. Wright