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ETS
2000
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Conferencing in communities of learners: examples from social history and science communication
A commonly encountered view of computer conferencing focuses on peer interaction, student empowerment and a shift in both teacher and student roles. This paper argues that this vi...
Ann C. Jones, Eileen Scanlon, Canan Tosunoglu Blak...
CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Visualization and empowerment
Data visualization, commonly used to make large sets of numerical data more legible, also has enormous potential as a storytelling tool to elicit insights on long-standing social ...
Indhira Rojas, Wendy Ju
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Why an emergency alert system isn't adopted: the impact of socio-technical context
The purpose of this study is to understand the laggard adoption of an SMS-based emergency alert system on a university campus. Based on findings from in-depth interviews and a foc...
Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Jennifer J. Preece
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
ELPUB
2000
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Changes in the Information Dissemination Process Within the Scholarly World: The Impact of Electronic Publishing on Scholarly Co
This paper describes part of the results of recent research carried out in Brazil and the UK, which investigated the perceptions by academic social scientists of the impact of ele...
Sely Maria de Souza Costa