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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
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
The promise and perils of a participatory approach to developing an open source community learning network
This paper describes and analyses the early developmental stages of a community learning network based in an urban community and social service agency. With government funding, th...
Robert Luke, Andrew Clement, Randall Terada, Domin...
KI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
From Theory to Practice in Multiagent System Design: The Case of Structural Co-operation
Abstract. In Distributed Problem-solving (DPS) systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a gl...
Sascha Ossowski, Ana García-Serrano, Jos&ea...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A study of emergency response work: patterns of mobile phone interaction
This paper presents descriptive accounts of time-critical organizing in the domain of emergency response. Patterns of mobile phone interaction in such work is analyzed showing how...
Jonas Landgren, Urban Nulden
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Making food, producing sustainability
Many contemporary approaches to environmental sustainability focus on the end-consumer. In this panel, we explore lessons from small food producers for future development of HCI a...
Tad Hirsch, Phoebe Sengers, Eli Blevis, Richard Be...