There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
This paper explores how homeless young people, aged 1325, make use of information systems in daily life. Observed in a community technology center, four different examples of uses...
This paper describes six creativity support tools we developed to foster community engagement and expression with robotics and sensing, assessing the benefits and shortcomings of ...
Carl F. DiSalvo, Marti Louw, Julina Coupland, Mary...
Amidst constant innovation in information and communication technologies, a new pattern of work is emerging. Hierarchical authority structures are giving way to greater decision-m...
We have designed and implemented P2PWNC, a fully distributed, open to all, autonomous WLAN roaming scheme that can be used in a community to provide various multimedia communicati...