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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The digital music box: using cultural and critical theory to inform design
This work draws on studies which explore resistance to the music industry's construal of copying music files as theft. Following a previous ethnography on participants' ...
Mark Blythe
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Tensions in designing capture technologies for an evidence-based care community
Evidence-based care is an increasingly popular process for long term diagnosis and monitoring of education and healthcare disabilities. Because this evidence must also be collecte...
Gillian R. Hayes, Gregory D. Abowd
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A hybrid cultural ecology: world of warcraft in China
We analyze online gaming as a site of collaboration in a digital-physical hybrid. We ground our analysis in findings from an ethnographic study of the online game World of Warcraf...
Silvia Lindtner, Bonnie A. Nardi, Yang Wang 0005, ...