Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
Abstract. Being aware of the gap between technological offers and user expectations, the paper aims to illustrate the necessity of anthropocentric designs ("user-pulled")...
This article presents a rational model developed under the distributed cognition framework that explains how social tags influence knowledge acquisition and adaptation in explorat...
A proliferation of mobile devices in everyday life has increased the likelihood of technologically mediated interruptions. We examine ethnographic data from an SMSbased pervasive ...
Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Steve Ben...
In this paper we present Family Accounts, a new user account model for shared home computers. We conducted a study with sixteen families, eight who used individual profiles at hom...
Serge Egelman, A. J. Bernheim Brush, Kori M. Inkpe...