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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Social dynamics of early stage co-design in developing regions
Technology arguably has the potential to play a key role in improving the lives of people in developing regions. However, these communities are not well understood and designers m...
Divya Ramachandran, Matthew Kam, Jane Chiu, John F...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time)
Current practice in Human Computer Interaction as encouraged by educational institutes, academic review processes, and institutions with usability groups advocate usability evalua...
Saul Greenberg, William Buxton
ICEIS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Knowledge Construction in E-Learning - Designing an E-Learning Environment
: In the traditional classroom, students learned to depend on tutors for their motivation, direction, goal setting, progress monitoring, self-assessment, and achievement. A fundame...
Kecheng Liu, Shirley Williams, Lily Sun
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Ubicomp4D: infrastructure and interaction for international development--the case of urban indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
ELPUB
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Autogeneous Authorization Framework for Open Access Information Management with Topic Maps
Conventional content management systems (CMSes) consider user management, specifically authorization to modify content objects to be orthogonal to any evolution of content within ...
Robert A. Barta, Markus W. Schranz