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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 9 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
15 years 2 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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14 years 11 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
15 years 10 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
15 years 1 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...