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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam
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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
PhotoCity: training experts at large-scale image acquisition through a competitive game
Large-scale, ground-level urban imagery has recently developed as an important element of online mapping tools such as Google’s Street View. Such imagery is extremely valuable i...
Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-yu Hsiao, Nadine...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell
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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Tweets from Justin Bieber's heart: the dynamics of the location field in user profiles
Little research exists on one of the most common, oldest, and most utilized forms of online social geographic information: the “location” field found in most virtual community...
Brent Hecht, Lichan Hong, Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi
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DGO
2011
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14 years 2 months ago
Social media use by government: from the routine to the critical
Social media (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) and other services with user-generated content have made a staggering amount of information (and misinformation) available....
Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Edward A. Fox, Steven D. Shee...