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CANDT
2009
13 years 9 months ago
wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Blogs as a collective war diary
Disaster-related research in human-centered computing has typically focused on the shorter-term, emergency period of a disaster event, whereas effects of some crises are longterm,...
Gloria Mark, Mossaab Bagdouri, Leysia Palen, James...
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
166views Education» more  SIGCSE 1996»
13 years 10 months ago
Activities to attract high school girls to computer science
We present several activities used in the two-week PipeLINK summer program for high school girls. These hands-on activities and interactive talks, presented mostly by female facul...
Susan H. Rodger, Ellen Lowenfeld Walker
HICSS
2003
IEEE
134views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
13 years 11 months ago
User Centred Opportunities for Supporting Consumer Behaviour Through Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
Moving around our physical environment, we are surrounded and interact with information that exhorts and stimulates us to buy things. For most of us, not all of these impulses are...
Kenton O'Hara, Mark Perry
JASSS
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
"Methodological Implications of Complex Systems Approaches to Sociality": Some Further Remarks
In a paper published in JASSS, Chris Goldspink discusses the methodological implications of complex systems approaches to the modeling of social systems. Like others before him Go...
Kurt A. Richardson