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    Achieving Accuracy through Ambiguity: the Interactivity of Risk Communication in Severe Weather Events

    Risks associated with natural hazards such as hurricanes are increasingly communicated on social media. For hurricane risk communication, visual information products—graphics—generated by meteorologists and sc...

    Melissa Bica, Joy Weinberg, Leysia Palen in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2020)

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    Of Coffee Shops and Parking Lots: Considering Matters of Space and Place in the Use of Public Wi-Fi

    Wireless local area networks – or Wi-Fi networks – are proliferating in some societies. Our interest in this exploratory essay is to illustrate how ostensibly free, publicly-accessible Wi-Fi requires users to ...

    Alena Sanusi, Leysia Palen in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2008)

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    When home base is not a place: parents’ use of mobile telephones

    More attention is being paid to the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are sensitive to the needs of people in their homes. By studying mobile telephony in such settings, we ...

    Leysia Palen, Amanda Hughes in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2007)

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    Discovery and Integration of Mobile Communications in Everyday Life

    We report on the results of a study in which 19 new mobile telephone users were closely tracked for the first six weeks after service acquisition. Results show that novices tend to rapidly modify their percep...

    Leysia Palen, Marilyn Salzman, Ed Youngs in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2001)