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CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
JCDL
2009
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...
AINA
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Location-Aware Mobile Call Handling Assistant
With the near ubiquity of mobile phones, people are reachable almost anywhere and at any time. At the same time we see an increasing need for people to limit their interactions on...
Ibrahim Bokharouss, Wayne Wobcke, Yiu-Wa Chan, And...
CORR
2002
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research
Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in rec...
Saverio Perugini, Marcos André Gonça...
CSCW
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Evolution of Contact Point: a case study of a help desk and its users
This paper describes the evolution of a concept, Contact Point, the research process through which it evolved, and the work context and practices which drove its evolution. Contac...
Lena Mamykina, Catherine G. Wolf