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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Distributing private data in challenged network environments
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...
Azarias Reda, Brian D. Noble, Yidnekachew Haile
W4A
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
What's the web like if you can't see it?
Awareness of Web accessibility is spreading all over the world among Web designers and developers, due to regulations such as the US law called Section 508 and guidelines like the...
Chieko Asakawa
IADIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Personalized Context-Aware Presentation of Information to Mobile Users
One of the major challenges facing information systems today is that of finding relevant information to satisfy a user's request and presenting it in a preferred form. The po...
M. Howard Williams, D. Halvatzaras, Lars Mehrmann
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu