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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya
We describe our approach and initial results in the participatory design of technology relevant to local rural livelihoods. Our approach to design and usability proceeds from rese...
Kevin Walker, Joshua Underwood, Timothy Mwololo Wa...
KDD
2006
ACM
240views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Adaptive event detection with time-varying poisson processes
Time-series of count data are generated in many different contexts, such as web access logging, freeway traffic monitoring, and security logs associated with buildings. Since this...
Alexander T. Ihler, Jon Hutchins, Padhraic Smyth
BSN
2006
IEEE
131views Sensor Networks» more  BSN 2006»
16 years 12 days ago
Elaborating Sensor Data using Temporal and Spatial Commonsense Reasoning
Ubiquitous computing has established a vision of computation where computers are so deeply integrated into our lives that they become both invisible and everywhere. In order to ha...
Bo Morgan, Push Singh
INTERACT
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Motivational Needs-Driven Mobile Phone Design
This paper provides support for the use of motivational needs in identifying mobile phone uses and related features. Drawing on motivational human and usage space research, the fin...
Judy van Biljon, Paula Kotzé, Gary Marsden
GROUP
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Communities of action: a cognitive and social approach to the design of CSCW systems
Most current theories about collective cognitive activities in limited groups apply to structurally closed co-operative situations Here we propose to work in the framework of inte...
Manuel Zacklad