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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones: values, form and function
By their pervasiveness and by being worn on our bodies, mobile phones seem to have become intrinsic to safety. To examine this proposition, 43 participants, from four stakeholder ...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Amy Iverson, David G. Hendr...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
HeatWave: thermal imaging for surface user interaction
We present HeatWave, a system that uses digital thermal imaging cameras to detect, track, and support user interaction on arbitrary surfaces. Thermal sensing has had limited exami...
Eric Larson, Gabe Cohn, Sidhant Gupta, Xiaofeng Re...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
PhotoCity: training experts at large-scale image acquisition through a competitive game
Large-scale, ground-level urban imagery has recently developed as an important element of online mapping tools such as Google’s Street View. Such imagery is extremely valuable i...
Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-yu Hsiao, Nadine...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell