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PDC
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field
As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, there is a great deal of hope about the use of information technology to achieve positive community outcomes like increasin...
Cecelia Merkel, Lu Xiao, Umer Farooq, Craig H. Gan...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A tale of two publics: democratizing design at the margins
The design and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has now evolved beyond its workplace origins to the wider public, expanding to people who live at the margins ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Jim Christensen, Mark Ba...
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Bettina Kemme, Gustavo Alonso
CSCW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Telling the whole story: anticipation, inspiration and reputation in a field deployment of TellTable
We present a field study of TellTable, a new storytelling system designed to support creativity and collaboration amongst children. The application was deployed on a multitouch in...
Xiang Cao, Siân E. Lindley, John Helmes, Abi...
CHIMIT
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Managing technology use and learning in nonprofit community organizations: methodological challenges and opportunities
We are investigating how to empower nonprofit community organizations to develop the information technology management practices required to carry out their civic goals. We highli...
Cecelia Merkel, Umer Farooq, Lu Xiao, Craig H. Gan...