Sciweavers

4298 search results - page 83 / 860
» Computing at the top of the world
Sort
View
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
HCI for the real world
HCI as a field comfortably and unquestionably links itself with the corporate world. What does this mean in terms of an ethics of problem choice, meaning the considerations that i...
Nicholas Knouf
CHI
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Applying the lessons of the attack on the world trade center, 11th September 2001, to the design and use of interactive evacuati
The collapse of buildings, such as terminal 2E at Paris' Charles de Gaule Airport, and of fires, such as the Rhode Island, Station Night Club tragedy, has focused public atte...
C. W. Johnson
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Hybrid sensor networks: a small world
In this paper, we investigate the use of limited infrastructure, in the form of wires, for improving the energy efficiency of a wireless sensor network. We call such a sensor netw...
Gaurav Sharma, Ravi Mazumdar
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner
C5
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Syncing Croquet with the Real World
3D virtual environments like Croquet need to be attractive in order to be visited and used. Their attractiveness depends on the level of vitality that the user is able to experien...
Grit Schuster, Christine Strothotte, Carola Zwick