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Adaptive Support for Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning at Tabletop Computers
Collaborative learning is a common practice in today's classrooms. Technology-supported collaborative learning environments are becoming increasingly sophisticated, enabling new ways for students to work together with technology. Research has shown that collaborative learning has many benefits, particularly for developing ...
UndocuLives: Understanding the Information Behavior, Needs, and Networks of UndocuStudents in Higher Education
Technology use and information consumption appears omnipresent in the lives of many modern U.S. college students, central to everything from social media posting to opening a free email account needed for most basic online transactions. Information regarding college admissions, deadlines, standardized tests scoring and financial ...
Conceptions of subject analysis: a metatheoretical investigation
(2005)
Little is known about the contemporary practice of subject analysis. However, there exists a rich theoretical literature on the interpretation of documents for their subject matter. This dissertation compares ten theoretical oeuvres (works) in order to create a lens for fieldwork. Each of these ten theoretical oeuvres represents ...
Powerful Structure: Inspecting Infrastructures of Information Organization in Wikimedia Foundation Projects
This dissertation investigates the social and technological factors of collaboratively organizing information in commons-based peer production systems. To do so, it analyzes the diverse strategies that members of Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) project communities use to organize information. Key findings from this dissertation ...
Native American Telecommunication Independence: One Step Above Smoke Signals
The digital divide disproportionally impacts Native American and Alaska Natives. Their homeland geographies, economies and technology footprints effect their ability to self-determine their Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The unequal access to information has rendered them Information Poor (Childers, 1975) and ...
Talking Story: The Militarization of Guåhan and Flows of Information in Chamoru Systems of Knowledge
This dissertation is a local, specific study on the Chamorro language policies of Guam. Scholars have noted since the beginning of the American occupation that the Indigenous Chamorro language of Guam is dying and is in danger of becoming extinct within the next generation. As the hub of American military presence in the Asia ...
Communicating Meaning in Context-Aware System Design
Computers play an increasingly personal role in our daily lives. Rather than interacting with computers primarily at work or for specialized tasks, computers are now present in virtually all our daily activities. The increased prevalence of technology in our lives has encouraged a rethinking of how technology is designed and ...
What Makes a Great Software Engineer
Good software engineers are essential to the creation of good software. However, today, we lack a holistic, contextual, and real-world understanding of software engineering expertise. In this dissertation, we address this gap by investigating the thesis: “Experts involved in the creation of software view software engineering ...
It's Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship
Contemporary American librarianship is typically considered a social science. Yet libraries and librarians have a strong history of making tools and services that enable access to and use of information resources. Conceptualizing librarianship from a scientific perspective discounts its design roots, leaving the field to ...
Designing Chat Guidance for Positive Psychological Change
Mental illnesses affect 25% of the U.S. population, and are the leading cause of ill health worldwide—far above physical illnesses. Common barriers of time, money, stigma, and lack of professionals to meet demand make it difficult for the majority of people to get the psychological support they need. To address this need, I ...