22 Result(s)

Chapter

Social Media in Disaster Communication

This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences, reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem solving, and digital volunteeris...

Leysia Palen, Amanda L. Hughes in Handbook of Disaster Research (2018)

Chapter and Conference Paper

From Crowdsourced Map** to Community Map**: The Post-earthquake Work of OpenStreetMap Haiti

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 catalyzed a nascent set of efforts in then-emergent “volunteer technology communities.” Among these was the response from OpenStreetMap, a volunteer-driven ...

Robert Soden, Leysia Palen in COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th Intern… (2014)

Article

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)

Chapter

Don’t Get Emotional

The topic of emotion in computing is enjoying recent and growing attention. Such attention is problematic because, we argue, foregrounding emotion marks it as a subcomponent of interaction, which has the surprisi...

Leysia Palen, Susanne Bødker in Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction (2008)

Chapter

The Zephyr Help Instance as a CSCW Resource

This chapter discusses, as an example of a resource in use, the Zephyr Help Instance as used at MIT. The Zephyr Help Instance is a chat-like system that allows users to ask questions and other users to answer....

Mark S. Ackerman, Leysia Palen in Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts (2008)

Article

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)

Chapter

Inside Text: an introduction

Richard Harper, Leysia Palen, Alex Taylor in The Inside Text (2005)

Chapter

Discretionary Adoption of Group Support Software: Lessons from Calendar Applications

Although the World Wide Web, Internet and organisational intranets have made computer-mediated collaboration possible for many people, adoption of collaboration technologies in business environments still pres...

Leysia Palen, Jonathan Grudin in Implementing Collaboration Technologies in Industry (2003)

Chapter

Welcome to the Wireless World: Problems Using and Understanding Mobile Telephony

Wireless telephony adoption is on the rise in many parts of the world (Cahners In-Stat Group, 2000), with recent technological innovations continuing to enhance the capabilities of the technology (McGinity, 19...

Leysia Palen, Marilyn Salzman in Wireless World (2002)

Article

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)

Chapter

Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech

Face-to-face communication in the workplace is often conceived of as consisting mainly of spoken language. Although spoken language is clearly a very important medium for the creation of representations, in co...

Edwin Hutchins, Leysia Palen in Discourse, Tools and Reasoning (1997)