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VLSID
2004
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Katha-Mala: A Voice Output Communication Aid for the Children with Severe Speech and Multiple Disorders (SSMI)
Recent developments in embedded systems technology have opened up a vast area of research and development- the development of portable and affordable assistive devices tuned to sp...
Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Saptarshi Biswas, Pratik Wora...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field
As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, there is a great deal of hope about the use of information technology to achieve positive community outcomes like increasin...
Cecelia Merkel, Lu Xiao, Umer Farooq, Craig H. Gan...
CANDT
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Communities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activists
In this paper, I describe how various understandings of community activated the design of Dialup Radio, a mobile phonebased independent media distribution system for Zimbabwean ci...
Tad Hirsch
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Design of an instrument for the evaluation of communication technologies with children
In designing communication technology for children, it is important to understand the affective benefits and costs introduced by a particular medium. We present an Affective Benef...
Svetlana Yarosh, Panos Markopoulos
CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Designing palaver tree online: supporting social roles in a community of oral history
As a more diverse population of users moves online, understanding how to help those groups work together and leverage their diverse skills poses a significant challenge for human-...
Jason B. Ellis, Amy Bruckman