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PETRA
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a social fabric for pervasive assistive environments
The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cann...
Clare Owens, David E. Millard, Andrew Stanford-Cla...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
A surprisingly high percentage of assistive technology devices (35% or more) are purchased, but not successfully adopted. Through semi-structured interviews with a dozen families,...
Melissa Dawe
ACMIDC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Interactive and intelligent visual communication systems
Interventions to support children with cognitive and social developmental disabilities often include visual elements. Use of visual artifacts has been shown to increase the commun...
Gillian R. Hayes, Donald J. Patterson, Mohamad Mon...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Authorable virtual peers for children with autism
For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating the use of a new kind of "authorable" virtual peer that allows children with autism to learn about recip...
Andrea Tartaro
WIKIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The social roles of bots and assisted editing programs
This paper investigates software programs as non-human social actors in Wikipedia, arguing that influence must not be overlooked in social scientific research of the on-line encyc...
R. Stuart Geiger