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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Making space for stories: ambiguity in the design of personal communication systems
Pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits for individual users, but also the potential for significant social difficulties an...
Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Home video communication: mediating 'closeness'
Video-mediated communication (VMC) technologies are becoming rapidly adopted by home users. Little research has previously been conducted into why home users would choose to use V...
David S. Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Xiang Cao
HT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
ASSIST: adaptive social support for information space traversal
Finding relevant information in a hyperspace has been a much studied problem for many years. With the emergence of so called Web 2.0 technologies we have seen the use of social sy...
Rosta Farzan, Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Br...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Better vocabularies for assistive communication aids: connecting terms using semantic networks and untrained annotators
The difficulties of navigating vocabulary in an assistive communication device are exacerbated for individuals with lexical access disorders like those due to aphasia. We present ...
Sonya S. Nikolova, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Christia...
ELPUB
1999
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
INDRENI - The Nepali Intranet. A Platform for Electronic Publishing and Information Sharing in Nepal
This paper describes the establishment of an intranet programme, ’Indreni’ , in Nepal. The article commences with a briefing on the state of telecommunications in developing cou...
Gaurab Raj Upadhaya