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CISS
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 days ago
On models for multi-user Gaussian channels with fading
Abstract— An analytically tractable model for Gaussian multiuser channels with fading is studied, and the capacity region of this model is found to be a good approximation of the...
Rony El Haddad, Brian Smith, Sriram Vishwanath
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Studying appropriation of everyday technologies: a cognitive approach
The ways in which users appropriate uses of technology ? or invent new ones ? have attracted interest in CSCW-oriented research, but much less has been written on its cognitive fo...
Antti Salovaara
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Learning about Interoperability for Emergency Response: Geographic Information Technologies and the World Trade Center Crisis
Geographic information technologies (GIT) have the potential to integrate information among multiple organizations. In fact, some of the most impressive advantages of using geo-sp...
Teresa M. Harrison, José Ramón Gil-G...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Homeless young people's experiences with information systems: life and work in a community technology center
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...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, David G. Hendry