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2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 11 days ago
Antiquarian answers: book restoration as a resource for design
As technologies age, they experience wear and degradation, sometimes resulting in loss of functionality. In response, parts are replaced and software is updated. Yet restorationâ€...
Daniela K. Rosner, Alex S. Taylor
GI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Designing QoS and Charging Mechanisms: He who pays the service shapes the design
To accommodate applications with highly variable degrees and categories of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, a major effort has been invested to overcome the traditional best-...
Anna Bouch, Martina Angela Sasse
CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Folk computing: revisiting oral tradition as a scaffold for co-present communities
In this paper, we introduce Folk Computing: an approach for using technology to support co-present community building inspired by the concept of folklore. We also introduce a new ...
Richard Borovoy, Brian Silverman, Tim Gorton, Matt...
AIS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A comparison between Maya hieroglyphs and computer icons
Interface design normally follows the traditional approach of Art and Design, which requires reworking to refine an idea through visual playfulness until a solution has been achiev...
Paul Honeywill