Hacking, tinkering, DIY, and crafts are increasingly popular forms of leisure that have also become growing sites of study in HCI. In this work we take a wide view of the similari...
The ways in which users appropriate uses of technology ? or invent new ones ? have attracted interest in CSCW-oriented research, but much less has been written on its cognitive fo...
We present the results of our study of 15 working parents, and how they manage their life scheduling needs, that is, how they manage their personal and professional schedules acro...
This dissertation research explores the invocation of emotional support from friends and family for parents who have a baby in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, through the use of t...
Knowledge workers making sense of a topic divide their time among activities including searching for information, reading, and taking notes. We have built a software system that s...