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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The GroceryMate: eliciting community empathy and transforming it into purposeful action
People who are homeless in the United States lack adequate amounts of nutritious food which is detrimental to their health. We are designing a grocery shopping assistance device t...
Rajasee S. Rege, Jennifer L. Allen, Eric P. Drewsk...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
DIY for CHI: methods, communities, and values of reuse and customization
People tinker, hack, fix, reuse, and assemble materials in creative and unexpected ways, often codifying and sharing their production process with others. Do-ityourself (DIY) enco...
Leah Buechley, Daniela Karin Rosner, Eric Paulos, ...
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Universal Design and Mobile Devices
The use of mobile technologies for self services, and the inclusion of elderly and cognitively disabled users in the self-service society can be improved by the application of appr...
Rita Hellman
ACE
2004
184views Education» more  ACE 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
From Informal to Formal: Creating the Australasian Computing Education Community
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
Judy Sheard, Angela Carbone
ICC
2007
IEEE
136views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Cross-layer Networking for Peer Databases over Wireless Ad-Hoc Communities
— Recent advances in wireless technology as well as in electronics industry have given rise to the widespread of wireless ad-hoc networking. Expanding data-centric applications t...
Evangelos Papapetrou, Efthymia Rova, Apostolos Zar...