In this paper we examine a ubiquitous yet overlooked aspect of home-life, pottering. The Oxford English Dictionary defines pottering as "To occupy oneself in an ineffectual o...
In this paper, we describe the design and preliminary evaluation of a hybrid desktop-handheld system developed to support individuals with aphasia, a disorder which impairs the ab...
Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Sonya S. Nikolova, Karyn Mo...
The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This d...
This case study describes ethnographic interviews with vehicle buyers to learn how they make purchase decisions. The research was conducted for J. Walter Thompson (JWT), the digit...
We present a conceptual framework for location-aware community systems and results from two studies of how sociallydefined places influence people's information sharing and c...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Steve Whittak...