My research examines the practical and social impact of technology on the urban homeless. To accomplish this, I have conducted interviews with the homeless to understand how techn...
We present a system that exploits advanced Virtual Reality technologies to create a surveillance and security system. Surveillance cameras are carried by a mini Blimp which is tel...
Marginalization threatens basic issues of fairness and equal opportunity for a significant portion of children around the n this extended abstract, we frame the problem of margina...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Natasha E. Bullock-Rest, Heid...
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
This case study in UbiComp technology and design presents a "Playful Toothbrush" system for assisting parents and teachers to motivate kindergarten children to learn pro...