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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
PDC
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The promise and perils of a participatory approach to developing an open source community learning network
This paper describes and analyses the early developmental stages of a community learning network based in an urban community and social service agency. With government funding, th...
Robert Luke, Andrew Clement, Randall Terada, Domin...
KI
1998
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
From Theory to Practice in Multiagent System Design: The Case of Structural Co-operation
Abstract. In Distributed Problem-solving (DPS) systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a gl...
Sascha Ossowski, Ana García-Serrano, Jos&ea...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A study of emergency response work: patterns of mobile phone interaction
This paper presents descriptive accounts of time-critical organizing in the domain of emergency response. Patterns of mobile phone interaction in such work is analyzed showing how...
Jonas Landgren, Urban Nulden
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Making food, producing sustainability
Many contemporary approaches to environmental sustainability focus on the end-consumer. In this panel, we explore lessons from small food producers for future development of HCI a...
Tad Hirsch, Phoebe Sengers, Eli Blevis, Richard Be...