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HCI
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Serial Hanging Out: Rapid Ethnographic Needs Assessment in Rural Settings
This paper presents an ethnographic method for assessing user needs in designing for rural settings. “Serial Hanging Out” consists of short-term participant observation with mu...
Jaspal S. Sandhu, P. Altankhuyag, D. Amarsaikhan
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Needs-based analysis of online customer reviews
Needs-based analysis lies at the intersection of product marketing and new product development. It is the study of why consumers purchase and what they do with those purchases. In...
Thomas Y. Lee
GECCO
2004
Springer
179views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
14 years 6 months ago
An Evolutionary Meta Hierarchical Scheduler for the Linux Operating System
Abstract. The need for supporting CSCW applications with heterogeneous and varying user requirements calls for adaptive and reconfigurable schedulers accommodating a mixture of re...
Horst Wedde, Muddassar Farooq, Mario Lischka
ISCAS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive multimedia access: from user needs to semantic personalisation
—We discuss the use of a reliable user requirements methodology for gathering essential data relating to user needs in advanced, personalised multimedia content applications. We ...
A. Evans, Miriam Fernández, David Vallet, P...
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Characterization of Web Application Interfaces
Web applications are increasingly prominent in society, serving a wide variety of user needs. Engineers seeking to enhance, test, and maintain these applications and third-party pr...
Marc Fisher II, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Gregg Rotherm...
AMI
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Designing an Awareness Display for Senior Home Care Professionals
Home care professionals play a central role in supporting elderly people when they need help to continue living in their own homes. Using awareness systems, caregivers might better...
Martijn H. Vastenburg, Robbert J. Vroegindeweij