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CHI
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
TxtBoard: from text-to-person to text-to-home
The design of existing mobile phone technology has emphasised the primacy of person-to-person communication for voice, SMS and image-based communication. It may be contrasted with...
Kenton O'Hara, Richard H. R. Harper, Axel Unger, J...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Towards individualized software engineering: empirical studies should collect psychometrics
Even though software is developed by humans, research in software engineering primarily focuses on the technologies, methods and processes they use while disregarding the importan...
Robert Feldt, Richard Torkar, Lefteris Angelis, Ma...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Gender demographic targeting in sponsored search
In this research, we evaluate the effect of gender in analyzing the performance of sponsored search advertising. We examine a log file with data comprised of nearly 7,000,000 reco...
Bernard J. Jansen, Lauren Solomon
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Contravision: exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology
How can we best explore the range of users' reactions when developing future technologies that maybe controversial, such as personal healthcare systems? Our approach – Cont...
Clara Mancini, Yvonne Rogers, Arosha K. Bandara, T...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Ethnography considered harmful
We review the current status of ethnography in systems design. We focus particularly on new approaches to and understandings of ethnography that have emerged as the computer has m...
Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Peter Tolmie, Graham Bu...