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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Resilience through technology adoption: merging the old and the new in Iraq
Little attention has been given to how citizens use technology to be resilient when their country is at war. We report on an ethnographic interview study of how technology was ado...
Gloria Mark, Ban Al-Ani, Bryan Semaan
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
"I Am a Black Cat, Letting Day Come and Go": Multimodal Conversations in a Poetry Workshop
Why do people bring together different modes of communication? Our study examines multimodal conversations held in a creative writing workshop in an elementary school. Different m...
Ruy Cervantes, Jahmeilah Richardson, Bonnie A. Nar...
MT
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Toward communicating simple sentences using pictorial representations
This paper evaluates the hypothesis that pictorial representations can be used to effectively convey simple sentences across language barriers. Comparative evaluations show that a...
Rada Mihalcea, Chee Wee Leong
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Connecting the "bottom of the pyramid": an exploratory case study of india's rural communication environment
This paper is based on our exploratory study of a South Indian village in Chamrajanagar district of Karnataka. The study was to understand the rural communication environment and ...
Sarita Seshagiri, Sagar Aman, Dhaval Joshi
WEBNET
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Telemedicine: An Inquiry in the Economic and Social Dynamics of Communications Technologies in the Medical Field
The health care industry in the United States has been experiencing substantial and ever increasing cost pressures. At the same time, many forces are revolutionizing the way healt...
Francis Pereira, Elizabeth Fife, Antonio A. Schuh