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PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
The weight of space: participatory design research for configuring habitable space for new arrival women in Hong Kong
When arriving to Hong Kong from China, the first difficulty of the new arrival women of the grassroots class is usually environmental stress. Their socio-economic situations often...
Jackie Yan-Chi Kwok
CANDT
2009
13 years 11 months ago
wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Tagliatelle: social tagging to encourage healthier eating
This paper describes the design and initial evaluation of Tag-liatelle, a collaborative tagging application for encouraging healthier eating. Users photograph their own meals and ...
Conor Linehan, Mark Doughty, Shaun Lawson, Ben Kir...
CRIWG
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Social Visualization Encouraging Participation in Online Communities
The paper describes a further development of the design of a motivational visualization encouraging participation in an online community. The new design overcomes shortcomings in p...
Lingling Sun, Julita Vassileva
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Women go with the (optical) flow
Previous research reported interesting gender effects involving specific benefits for females navigating with wider fields of view on large displays. However, it was not clear wha...
Desney S. Tan, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...