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Indicating Impact: The Environmental Life-Cycle Rating Label
(IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 2011)Point-of-purchase environmental labeling can complement governmental environmental regulation by enabling consumers to address environmental problems via their purchasing power. Environmental labels can also provide ... -
Investigating Resource-Constrained Populations: Developing Design Approaches to Support Agency and Reciprocity
(2011-06-01)Designing for information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries and for poor communities in developed countries presents unique challenges. In these settings, people have limited access to a variety ... -
Knowledge Workers and Associative Activity: An Examination of Knowledge Work Systems and Settings
The US has experienced broad reaching economic changes as work has moved from the farm, to the factory, to the office, and now beyond. The long-term, high-level shift toward information work in the US is accompanied by ... -
Measuring Distributed Mentoring in an Online Fanfiction Community
This dissertation approaches questions about how creators informally learn from their online networks using a human-centered data science perspective. Over the past few decades, participation in online communities has ... -
Mediation, Motives, and Goals: Identifying the Networked Nature of Contemporary Activism
(2012-09-13)Many contemporary work organizations are dynamic, complex entities that are increasingly networked and distributed in nature. Using an activist organization as the site of research, this study examines how a loosely-networked, ... -
Mobile hybridity: supporting personal and romantic relationships with mobile phones in digitally emergent spaces
(2007)Mobile phones are a global phenomenon and can be readily found in places as technologically disparate as Japan and sub-Saharan Africa. Their sociological impact in these diverse cultural and technological contexts is rich ... -
Promoting Rhetorical Awareness and Perceived Self-Efficacy: Engineering Undergraduate Students Creating Preparedness Portfolios About Communication
(2013-07-23)Effective communication has been identified in recent years as a crucial competency for practicing engineers by industry professionals, educators, engineering graduates working in the field, and current engineering ... -
QuikScan: Facilitating Document Use Through Innovative Formatting
(2008)Reading and seeking information in documents are among the crucial literacies of our time. Our ability to carry out these activities successfully is due to a long series of innovations in information design that go back ... -
Salmon on the run: Practicing scale in the study of wild Alaska salmon
Modern scientific research infrastructure has eclipsed the importance of scaling when understanding ecosystem change. Scale is the lens through which scientists parse complexity. Although scale is central to scientific ... -
Software and Space: Investigating How a Cosmology Research Group Enacts Infrastructure by Producing Software
Software is a pervasive element of twenty-first century life and an integral element of scientific research. Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in recent decades investigates how distributed, collaborative ... -
Technology Support for Online Science Communication
As researchers, we have an obligation to share our scholarship and act as advocates for scientific knowledge. Participatory platforms like social media have become an important way for researchers to connect with the public, ... -
Transforming Queer Health Technologies Through Community-Based Systems Design
Technologists are often motivated to do good in the world, laying out grand visions for how to optimize systems, automate tedious tasks, and expand what is possible. However, these innovations can create or exacerbate ... -
Transitioning Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Projects from Research to Implementation
(2011-08-03)Since international development emerged at the end of World War II, people have had high expectations that technology and information would play a central role in improving the lives of people in resource-constrained ... -
Understanding University Students' Use of Tools and Artifacts in Support of Collaborative Project Work
(2013-07-23)When designers collaborate on projects, they use an assortment of tools to generate a variety of artifacts that help them complete their work. However, it remains unclear how university students use tools and create artifacts ...