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    Machine Learning and the Work of the User

    This paper introduces the collection of the Journal on Machine Learning (ML) and the user. It provides a brief history of ML from the 1950’s through to the current time, sketching the nature of the kinds of pr...

    Richard Harper, Dave Randall in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2024)

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    Beyond “yesterday’s tomorrow”: future-focused mobile interaction design by and for emergent users

    Mobile and ubiquitous computing researchers have long envisioned future worlds for users in developed regions. Steered by such visions, they have innovated devices and services exploring the value of alternative ...

    Matt Jones, Simon Robinson, Jennifer Pearson in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2017)

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    From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW: a Review Essay

    This paper considers the shared awareness perspective put forward by Tenenberg, Roth and Socha. Seeking to treat this view from its philosophical background in Quine, Davidson and Bratman, this paper offers a ...

    Richard Harper in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2016)

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    Homes that make us smart

    In this article we consider what it should mean to build “smartness” or “intelligence” into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who imbue their homes with intelligence by continuall...

    Alex S. Taylor, Richard Harper, Laurel Swan in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2007)

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    The Gift of the Gab?: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles

    This paper reports ethnographically informedobservations of the use of mobile phones andtext messaging services amongst young people.It offers a sociological explanation for thepopularity of text messaging and...

    Alex S. Taylor, Richard Harper in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2003)

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    Domestic design: An introduction to the research issues surrounding the development and design of interactive technologies for the home

    Richard Harper in Personal Technologies (2000)

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    The relevance of ‘work-practice’ for design

    Designers are increasingly being urged to take account of the situated and contingent organisation of the work that their systems are to support or automate. Within CSCW the concept of work-practice is a much ...

    Graham Button, Richard Harper in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (1995)

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    Kee** people apart

    This paper reports findings of research into the nature of collaboration in a design company. Observations of the shared work of two groups, architects and building services engineers, are discussed and the ro...

    Richard Harper, Kathleen Carter in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (1993)