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CSCW
2006
ACM
16 years 22 days ago
Of pill boxes and piano benches: "home-made" methods for managing medication
We report on the results of an ethnographic study of how elders manage their medication with the objective of informing the design of in-home assistive health technology to suppor...
Leysia Palen, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard
ASSETS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Iwalk: a lightweight navigation system for low-vision users
Smart phones typically support a range of GPS-enabled navigation services. However, most navigation services on smart phones are of limited use to people with visual disabilities....
Amanda J. Stent, Shiri Azenkot, Ben Stern
ICIW
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Towards a Disciplined Engineering of Adaptive Service-Oriented Business Processes
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
Nasreddine Aoumeur, Kamel Barkaoui
IUI
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Facilitating exploratory search by model-based navigational cues
We present an extension of a computational cognitive model of social tagging and exploratory search called the semantic imitation model. The model assumes a probabilistic represen...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Bringing the field into focus: user-centered design of a patient expertise locator
Managing personal aspects of health is challenging for many patients, particularly those facing a serious condition such as cancer. Finding experienced patients, who can share the...
Andrea Civan-Hartzler, David W. McDonald, Chris Po...