CROSSROADS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Crowdsourcing is an effective tool to solve hard tasks. By bringing 100,000s of people to work on simple tasks that only humans can do, we can go far beyond traditional models of ...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
Strong representative democracies rely on educated, informed, and active citizenry to provide oversight of the government. We present Connect 2 Congress (C2C), a novel, high tempo...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
People are ready to change themselves to adopt more ecofriendly habits such as conserving electricity when they are aware of the possible problems of their lifestyle. In this sens...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
Consumer game platforms are realizing Ubicomp's vision of seamless, sensor-based, embodied interaction with computation. Here we present Propinquity, a full-body dancing/figh...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
We present two studies of participatory sensing in the wild, in which groups of young people used sensors to collect environmental data along with contextual information such as p...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Springer
We present Energy Life a system utilizing wireless sensors, mobile and ambient interfaces that turn energy consumers into active players. Energy Life participants play through dif...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
If you have a laser cutter, you can build your own TOPAOKO. We describe work in progress on TOPAOKO, an interactive construction kit that encourages experimentation and play with ...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
We present our experiences of using an iterative, prototypedriven approach to developing social systems with the participation of communities, inspired by probe-based methodologie...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
To counter the increasing number of online threats for users' privacy and security, this paper explores the design of an ambient security indicator, in form of a standard key...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2010
Springer
Storytelling and sharing family histories are important parts of what it means to "be" a family. Based on results from a study on intergenerational communication over a ...