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HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Ubicomp4D: infrastructure and interaction for international development--the case of urban indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
WAW
2004
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Communities Detection in Large Networks
We develop an algorithm to detect community structure in complex networks. The algorithm is based on spectral methods and takes into account weights and links orientations. Since t...
Andrea Capocci, Vito Domenico Pietro Servedio, Gui...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 17 days ago
Finding core members in virtual communities
Finding the core members of a virtual community is an important problem in community analysis. Here we presented an simulated annealing algorithm to solve this problem by optimizi...
Haiqiang Chen, Xueqi Cheng, Yue Liu
HCI
2007
15 years 1 months ago
Grand Challenges in Design Research for Human-Centered Design Informatics
The idea of design informatics as a distinguished discipline is a new one, with little precedence. This paper argues for the importance of a humancentered perspective with respect ...
Youn-Kyung Lim, Eli Blevis, Erik Stolterman
CSCW
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Maintaining redundancy in the coordination of medical emergencies
This paper reports from a study of Norwegian medical emergency call (AMK) centres, in which advanced radio and telephone communication technologies are handled by a team of nurses...
Aksel Tjora