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OZCHI
2006
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
Design for inspiration: children, personal connections and educational technology
The project is working towards building an understanding of the personal interests and experiences of children with the aim of designing appropriate, usable and, most importantly,...
Peta Wyeth, Carla Diercke, Stephen Viller
PDC
2006
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
Make it so! Jean-Luc Picard, Bart Simpson and the design of e-public services
In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possibl...
Andy Dearden, Angela Lauener, Frances Slack, Chris...
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
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16 years 22 days ago
Empirical mechanism design: methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario
Our proposed methods employ learning and search techniques to estimate outcome features of interest as a function of mechanism parameter settings. We illustrate our approach with ...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, Mic...
VRST
2006
ACM
16 years 22 days ago
Variations in physiological responses of participants during different stages of an immersive virtual environment experiment
This paper presents a study of the fine grain physiological responses of participants to an immersive virtual simulation of an urban environment. The analysis of differences in p...
Andrea Brogni, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Anthony Ste...
GROUP
2005
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Instant messaging bots: accountability and peripheral participation for textual user interfaces
Over the last several years, studies of instant messaging have observed its increasing role in the workplace[1] and in social situations[2]. We propose that modifying applications...
Stephen Chan, Benjamin Hill, Sarita Yardi