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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Organizing the unorganized - employing IT to empower the under-privileged
Various sectors in developing countries are typically dominated by the presence of a large number of small and microbusinesses that operate in an informal, unorganized manner. Man...
Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K. Agarwal, D...
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
On a service-oriented approach for an engineering knowledge desktop
Increasingly, manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to providing services. As a result, when designing new products, engineers must increasingly c...
Sylvia C. Wong, Richard M. Crowder, Gary B. Wills
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Small world peer networks in distributed web search
In ongoing research, a collaborative peer network application is being proposed to address the scalability limitations of centralized search engines. Here we introduce a local ada...
Ruj Akavipat, Le-Shin Wu, Filippo Menczer
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Extraordinary computing: religion as a lens for reconsidering the home
We present results from a study examining how American Protestant Christians' faith affects their domestic life. There are two contributions of this work for the HCI communit...
Susan Wyche, Rebecca E. Grinter
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
API usability: CHI'2009 special interest group meeting
Programmers of all types from novice end-user developers to professional software engineers make use of application programming interfaces (API) within their various designs. And,...
John M. Daughtry III, Umer Farooq, Jeffrey Stylos,...