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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused ...
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, ...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
When the implication is not to design (technology)
As HCI is applied in increasingly diverse contexts, it is important to consider situations in which computational or information technologies may be less appropriate. This paper p...
Eric P. S. Baumer, M. Six Silberman
HUC
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enabling large-scale human activity inference on smartphones using community similarity networks (csn)
Sensor-enabled smartphones are opening a new frontier in the development of mobile sensing applications. The recognition of human activities and context from sensor-data using cla...
Nicholas D. Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanz...
JCDL
2009
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Mobility, digital libraries and a rural indian village
Millions of people in developed countries routinely create and share digital content; but what about the billions of others in on the wrong side of what has been called the ‘glo...
Matt Jones, Emma Thom, David Bainbridge, David Fro...