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GIS
2007
ACM
16 years 1 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
71
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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Reduced empathizing skills increase challenges for user-centered design
User-Centered Design is surprisingly difficult. One of the biggest issues, certainly for those with no HCI or usability experience, is a lack of appreciation of how users think an...
William Hudson
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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
In-car gps navigation: engagement with and disengagement from the environment
Although in-car GPS navigation technology is proliferating, it is not well understood how its use alters the ways people interpret their environment and navigate through it. We ar...
Gilly Leshed, Theresa Velden, Oya Rieger, Blazej J...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
105
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WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Sampling community structure
We propose a novel method, based on concepts from expander graphs, to sample communities in networks. We show that our sampling method, unlike previous techniques, produces subgra...
Arun S. Maiya, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf