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2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The effects of life disruptions on home technology routines
Conflict and disruption are a part of everyday life, yet research in the home largely examines consensus and rituals. In this paper, we use Holmes and Rahe's categorization o...
Jill P. Dimond, Erika Shehan Poole, Sarita Yardi
CANDT
2009
14 years 11 days ago
Empowering rural citizen journalism via web 2.0 technologies
Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot proje...
Marco A. Figueiredo, Paola Prado, Mauro A. Câ...
ACMIDC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Utilizing technology to support the development of empathy
Empathy is a fundamental component of positive and productive human relationships. In the context of civic engagement, the ability to "stand in the shoes of another" inc...
Shaundra Bryant Daily, Karen Brennan
IJMMS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Storied spaces: Cultural accounts of mobility, technology, and environmental knowing
When we think of mobility in technical terms, we think of topics such as bandwidth, resource management, location, and wireless networks. When we think of mobility in social or cu...
Johanna Brewer, Paul Dourish
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Categorical Approach to the Extension of Social Choice Functions
Are we interested in choice functions or function for choice? Was it my choice or did I choose? In the end it is all about sorts and operators, terms as given by the term monad ove...
Patrik Eklund, Mario Fedrizzi, Hannu Nurmi