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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Homeless young people's experiences with information systems: life and work in a community technology center
This paper explores how homeless young people, aged 1325, make use of information systems in daily life. Observed in a community technology center, four different examples of uses...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, David G. Hendry
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Theory-driven design strategies for technologies that support behavior change in everyday life
In this paper, we propose design strategies for persuasive technologies that help people who want to change their everyday behaviors. Our strategies use theory and prior work to s...
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, James A. Landay
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months 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...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Privacy as a Fundamental Construct for Social Networks
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Encountering SenseCam: personal recording technologies in everyday life
In this paper, we present a study of responses to the idea of being recorded by a ubicomp recording technology called SenseCam. This study focused on real-life situations in two N...
David H. Nguyen, Gabriela Marcu, Gillian R. Hayes,...