Venkatesh / Gonzalves / Monk Home Informatics and Telematics

ICT for the Next Billion (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol 241)
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-73697-6
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

This volume represents the papers reviewed and accepted for the HOIT2007 conference held at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the city of Chennai, India in August 2007. Home Informatics and Telematics: ICT for the Next Billion addresses many of the major themes of current interest in the field, with a particular focus on community-based technologies. This comprehensive book is divided into five different sections: Empowerment and Digital Divide, ICT and Learning, ICT-Emereging Communities and Societal Issues, Home Applications and Family Uses, ICTs in the Home- Usability and Design Issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Venkatesh, Alladi

Gonzalves, Timothy

Monk, Andrew

Buckner, Kathy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Preface;7
3;Table of Contents;9
4;Convergence opportunities and factors influencing the use of internet and telephony by rural women in South Africa and India towards empowerment;11
5;Untapped Resources! Amazing Potential! TeNeT's Rural BPO Initiative;31
6;A Set of Heuristic Measurements for Evaluating the Inclusiveness of a Technology;44
7;The Tech-Enabled Neighborhood: Findings from an experience in Tecamac, Mexico;58
8;Intelligent Tutoring Systems using Reinforcement Learning to teach Autistic Students;73
9;Teaching - Learning Strategies in Interactive Education - A Case Study;87
10;On the role of awareness systems for supporting parent involvement in young children's schooling;98
11;Community Software Applications;109
12;Being Social @ Work: Designing for Playfully Mediated Social Awareness in Work Environments;119
13;Shaping social beliefs: A community sensitive health information system for rural India;138
14;" Can we trust the Indians with our data?" An examination of the emergence of information privacy laws in India;149
15;Off Their Trolley -- Understanding Online Grocery Shopping Behaviour;160
16;Containing Family Clutter;174
17;Digital Photo Sharing and Emotions In A Ubiquitous Smart Home;188
18;Telephone conferences for fun: experimentation in people's homes;204
19;Enliven Photographs: Enriching User Experience;218
20;Changing only the aesthetic features of a product can affect its apparent usability;223
21;Exploring technology influences between home, work, school: implications for managing ubiquitous technologies in the home;236
22;Designing for Co-located Social media use in the home using the CASOME infrastructure;251
23;Usability - Key Factor of Future Smart Home Systems;268
24;Lessons from the Life of Domestic Objects: Design Considerations for UbiComp Devices for Home;278