Communication is about people, not machines. But as firms and families alike spread out geographically, we rely increasingly on telecommunications tools to keep us "connected...
The problem of task assignment in heterogeneous computing systems has been studied for many years with many variations. We consider the version in which communicating tasks are to...
In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come ...
Teenagers comprise a large proportion of our population, and their technology use is a bellwether of future trends. Today's teens are coming of age with the rapid development...
Diane J. Schiano, Coreena P. Chen, Ellen Isaacs, J...
Domestic ubicomp applications often assume individual users will program and configure their technology in isolation, decoupled from complex domestic environments in which they ar...
Jennifer A. Rode, Eleanor F. Toye, Alan F. Blackwe...