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GIS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Where were we: communities for sharing space-time trails
We consider trails to be a document type of growing importance, authored in abundance as locative technologies become embedded in mobile devices carried by billions of humans. As ...
Scott Counts, Marc Smith
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
A diary study of mobile information needs
Being mobile influences not only the types of information people seek but also the ways they attempt to access it. Mobile contexts present challenges of changing location and soci...
Timothy Sohn, Kevin A. Li, William G. Griswold, Ja...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
The VVIP system: encouraging the use of public transport in Edinburgh
This article is concerned with the encouragement and promotion of the use of buses in Edinburgh, especially among visually impaired users and tourists / migrant workers. The repor...
Darren James Thomson, Marius Gylseth, Robert McGar...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Designing appropriate affordances for electronic photo sharing media
In contrast to printed photos, practices for sharing digital photos are yet to become well established. Consequently, they have received relatively little attention in the literat...
Andrew F. Monk, Siân E. Lindley
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner