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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
America is like Metamucil: fostering critical and creative thinking about metaphor in political blogs
Blogs are becoming an increasingly important medium-socially, academically, and politically. Much research has involved analyzing blogs, but less work has considered how such anal...
Eric P. S. Baumer, Jordan Sinclair, Bill Tomlinson
NSPW
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Locality: a new paradigm for thinking about normal behavior and outsider threat
Locality as a unifying concept for understanding the normal behavior of benign users of computer systems is suggested as a unifying paradigm that will support the detection of mal...
John McHugh, Carrie Gates
FECS
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Infusing Parts-whole Relationship Critical Thinking Skill into Basic Computer Science Education
Improving the quality of student thinking should be given a high priority in any educational system as good thinking is essential in meeting the challenges of living in a rapidly ...
Muhammad Shafique, M. R. K. Krishna Rao
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Pride and prejudice: learning how chronically ill people think about food
In this paper, we describe a formative study to learn how one chronically ill population thinks about food, mentally organizes food, and interprets consumption-level icons. We fou...
Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Yvonne Rogers
CHI
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Aligning development tools with the way programmers think about code changes
Software developers must modify their programs to keep up with changing requirements and designs. Often, a conceptually simple change can require numerous edits that are similar b...
Marat Boshernitsan, Susan L. Graham, Marti A. Hear...