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CSCW
2000
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community
Drawing on a sample of 493 respondents from 21 counties in a southeastern state, this study examines the rate of business start-ups in relation to various measures of community so...
Robert D. Putnam
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Computing in context: integrating an embedded computing project into a course on ethical and societal issues
A hands-on embedded computing project is introduced into an undergraduate social sciences course. In the pilot module, nine student teams created working prototypes, using the tec...
Fred G. Martin, Sarah Kuhn
CSCW
1998
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Participatory Design: Issues and Concerns
We characterize Participatory Design (PD) as a maturing area of research and as an evolving practice among design professionals. Although PD has been applied outside of technology
Finn Kensing, Jeanette Blomberg
CSCW
1998
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
When Survival is an Issue: PD in Support of Landscape Architecture
This paper reports on an ongoing project involving researchers from Lancaster University and a branch of a landscape architecture firm. It explores some of the possibilities pursue...
Preben Mogensen, Dan Shapiro