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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Sabbath day home automation: "it's like mixing technology and religion"
We present a qualitative study of 20 American Orthodox Jewish families' use of home automation for religious purposes. These lead users offer insight into real-life, longterm...
Allison Woodruff, Sally Augustin, Brooke E. Foucau...
DC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A family of optimal termination detection algorithms
An important problem in distributed systems is to detect termination of a distributed computation. A computation is said to have terminated when all processes have become passive a...
Neeraj Mittal, Subbarayan Venkatesan, Sathya Peri
ECIS
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Computers in the Home: Domestic Technology and the Process of Domestication
Home computers are often considered as `domestic technology' or part of the `domestic media ensemble' as if those were simple and straightforward concepts. In this paper...
Laurence Habib, Tony Cornford
ETS
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Adoption of Communication Technologies in a Texas Health Setting
Advances in communication technologies generate new opportunities for collaboration. With each technological innovation, we acquire a greater capacity to share information, resour...
L. Suzanne Suggs, William B. Cissell, Chris McInty...
ACMIDC
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Design of an instrument for the evaluation of communication technologies with children
In designing communication technology for children, it is important to understand the affective benefits and costs introduced by a particular medium. We present an Affective Benef...
Svetlana Yarosh, Panos Markopoulos