Randomness is being harnessed in the design of some interactive systems. This is observed in random blogs, random web searching, and in particular Apple's iPod Shuffle. Yet t...
Abstract We have explored the challenges of designing domestic services to help family and friends determine mutually agreeable times to call. In our first study, we identified a...
Kristine S. Nagel, Ja-Young Sung, Gregory D. Abowd
The importance of adopting a socio-technical approach to system development is recognised by many but not widely practised. We analyse the reasons for this, considering the histor...
In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possibl...
Andy Dearden, Angela Lauener, Frances Slack, Chris...
Mission Queen Maud Land (MQML) is a collaborative virtual environment that was developed to explore new ways to stimulate secondary school pupils to collaborate in grasping comple...