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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 1 days ago
Fit4life: the design of a persuasive technology promoting healthy behavior and ideal weight
This is a critical design paper offering a possible scenario of use intended to provoke reflection about values and politics of design in persuasive computing. We describe the des...
Stephen Purpura, Victoria Schwanda, Kaiton William...
PSYCHNOLOGY
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Extended Television: A Study of How Investigations of Use Can Inform Design Processes in Nursing Homes
This paper describes the shortcomings in the support that replaces the lost distributed cognition in older people who move to nursing homes and how artifacts can improve this by f...
Peter Abdelmassih Waller
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Theory-driven design strategies for technologies that support behavior change in everyday life
In this paper, we propose design strategies for persuasive technologies that help people who want to change their everyday behaviors. Our strategies use theory and prior work to s...
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, James A. Landay
DILS
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
A Visual Interface for on-the-fly Biological Database Integration and Workflow Design Using VizBuilder
Abstract. Data integration plays a major role in modern Life Sciences research primarily because required resources are geographically distributed across continents and experts dep...
Shahriyar Hossain, Hasan M. Jamil
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Remarkable computing: the challenge of designing for the home
The vision of ubiquitous computing is floating into the domain of the household, despite arguments that lessons from design of workplace artefacts cannot be blindly transferred in...
Marianne Graves Petersen