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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions
In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Beth E. Kolko, Emma J. Rose, Erica J. Johnson
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Studying activity patterns in CSCW
We study small distributed work groups capturing, managing, and reusing knowledge in a collaborative activity. We conceive this process as adaptation of a group to an activity and...
Gregorio Convertino, Thomas P. Moran, Barton A. Sm...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Dual ecologies of robot as communication media: thoughts on coordinating orientations and projectability
The aim of our study is to investigate systems for supporting remote instruction via a mobile robot. In the real world, instructions are typically given through words and body ori...
Hideaki Kuzuoka, Keiichi Yamazaki, Akiko Yamazaki,...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Doing things backwards: the OWL project
The OWL project is inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of Technology Prediction: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It consists of a s...
Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen
SC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Kepler + Hadoop: a general architecture facilitating data-intensive applications in scientific workflow systems
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Jianwu Wang, Daniel Crawl, Ilkay Altintas