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IADIS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Web 2.0 Technologies For Digital Students
Recent years have seen a new generation of `digital students' emerging in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies i...
Diana Andone
PERSUASIVE
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Cross-Cultural Communication Through Collaborative Technologies
The paper discusses an original research project in the area of education and cross-cultural rhetoric on the use of persuasive digital technologies to enable intercultural competen...
Alyssa J. O'Brien, Christine Alfano, Eva Magnusson
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 2 days ago
Fit4life: the design of a persuasive technology promoting healthy behavior and ideal weight
This is a critical design paper offering a possible scenario of use intended to provoke reflection about values and politics of design in persuasive computing. We describe the des...
Stephen Purpura, Victoria Schwanda, Kaiton William...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Social dynamics of early stage co-design in developing regions
Technology arguably has the potential to play a key role in improving the lives of people in developing regions. However, these communities are not well understood and designers m...
Divya Ramachandran, Matthew Kam, Jane Chiu, John F...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI
Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is something that brings people together?individuals interact through and around it. Cu...
Andrea Grimes, Richard Harper