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IUI
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Towards a reputation-based model of social web search
While web search tasks are often inherently collaborative in nature, many search engines do not explicitly support collaboration during search. In this paper, we describe HeyStaks...
Kevin KcNally, Michael P. O'Mahony, Barry Smyth, M...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
The commodification of location: dynamics of power in location-based systems
Location-based ubiquitous computing systems are entering mainstream society and becoming familiar parts of everyday life. However, the settings in which they are deployed are alre...
Irina Shklovski, Janet Vertesi, Emily Troshynski, ...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Steps toward a typology for health informatics
In this paper we outline a typology, which will be useful for those engaged in the design and customization of information systems in healthcare. Drawing on ethnographic case stud...
Ellen Balka, Pernille Bjørn, Ina Wagner
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Artful systems in the home
In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come ...
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards