One of the major challenges in the design of social technologies is the evaluation of their qualities of use and how they are appropriated over time. While the field of HCI abound...
Recently a bulk of research [14, 5, 15, 9] has been done on the modelling of the smallworld phenomenon, which has been shown to be pervasive in social and nature networks, and eng...
With the massive adoption of internet technologies, social media and blogs have become primary means of expressing opinions online. The Blogosphere contains a wealth of informatio...
As a platform for community networks, information spaces using the city metaphor are being developed in worldwide. This paper comparesthe trials of digital cities. Four digital cit...
This paper presents EasyVoice, a system that integrates voice synthesis with Skype. EasyVoice allows a person with voice disabilities to talk with another person located anywhere ...