Due to the ongoing development of urban infrastructure and higher living standards, waste
glass has become a significant component of municipal solid waste that cannot be …

This article focuses on" fundi wa simu,"(mobile phone repairers) in rural Kenya and their
ideas about mobile phone design. Our study design and analysis were guided by ideas from …

Increases in mobile phone ownership and Internet access throughout Africa continue to
motivate initiatives to use information and communication technologies (ICTs)—in particular …

Understanding social perception is crucial when designing socially accepted mobile
devices. Using the stereotype content model (SCM), recent work showed that mobile …

Frequent renewal of digital devices accounts for a large share of their environmental impact
because of fabrication environmental costs. This renewal is often attributed to sociocultural …

Technological progress has enabled widespread adoption and use of consumer electronics,
changing how global society lives and works. This progress has come with immense …

This research looks at the impact of mobile phone use on the lives and opportunities of 16-
24 year-old socially excluded women, using a novel, cross-disciplinary framework of the …

As robots are increasingly designed and marketed for social adoption, questions emerge
about manufacturers' ethical responsibilities for ensuring continuity of their creations …

Today's technology trend in the United States is influenced by the growing population of
182.6 million smartphone users (Statista Inc., 2015). The technology trend has also affected …

We consider the use of physical and virtual objects having one or more affordances
associated to simple interactions with them. Based on Kaptelinin and Nardi's notion of …