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CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Pottering: a design-oriented investigation
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...
Susan Wyche, Alex S. Taylor, Joseph Kaye
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Participatory design with proxies: developing a desktop-PDA system to support people with aphasia
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...
AEI
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly
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...
Qinggang Meng, Mark H. Lee
CHI
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Ethnographic interviews guide design of ford vehicles website
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...
Lori Anschuetz, Stephanie Rosenbaum
CSCW
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Putting systems into place: a qualitative study of design requirements for location-aware community systems
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...