Culture strongly influences people's values, expectations, behavior, and even perceptions
and cognitive reasoning. Although HCI researchers recognize culture as an important factor …

Cultural aspects such as values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns influence the way
technology is understood and used, and the impact it may cause on the environment and on …

StackExchange is a network of Question & Answer (Q&A) sites that support collaborative
knowledge exchange on a variety of topics. Prior research found a significant imbalance …

Human values (eg, pleasure, privacy, and social justice) are what a person or a society
considers important. Inability to address them in software-intensive systems can result in …

We have examined value creation in projects aiming at teaching children design related
skills. Our results show that in addition to the roles defined by adults for children in the …

Perception and action on physical or virtual objects are related to the perturbations (light,
sound, etc.) caused by them. For the design of collective spaces, with computational …

Developing technology to attend to social demands is an increasing challenge for the
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area. Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable …

Cultural aspects frame our perception of the world and direct the many different ways people
interact with things in it. For this reason, these aspects should be considered when …

The current political climate has seen the influx of refugees in many economically developed
countries. Many of these children face challenges finding meaningful and enriching learning …

The main idea behind the Open Source model of software development is to promote open
collaboration in a decentralized process of coding. Varied endeavors have taken place in …