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SPRINGER Home Informatics And Telematics Ict For The Next Billion by VENKATESH
This volume represents the papers reviewed and accepted for the HOIT2007 conference held at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the city of Chennai, India in August 2007. This volume addresses many of the major themes of current interest in the field, with a particular focus on community-based technologies. This comprehensive book is divided into five different sections reflecting the most up-to-date research on computers and society. Empowerment and Digital Divide.- Convergence opportunities and factors influencing the use of internet and telephony by rural women in South Africa and India towards empowerment.- Untapped Resources! Amazing Potential! TeNeT's Rural BPO Initiative.- A Set of Heuristic Measurements for Evaluating the Inclusiveness of a Technology.- The Tech-Enabled Neighborhood: Findings from an experience in Tecamac, Mexico.- ICT and Learning.- Intelligent Tutoring Systems using Reinforcement Learning to teach Autistic Students.- Teaching - Learning Strategies in Interactive Education - A Case Study.- On the role of awareness systems for supporting parent involvement in young children's schooling.- ICT - Emerging Commmunities and Societal Issues.- Community Software Applications.- Being Social @ Work: Designing for Playfully Mediated Social Awareness in Work Environments.- Shaping social beliefs: A community sensitive health information system for rural India.- "Can we trust the Indians with our data?" An examination of the emergence of information privacy laws in India.- Home Applications and Family Uses.- Off Their Trolley - Understanding Online Grocery Shopping Behaviour.- Containing Family Clutter.- Digital Photo Sharing and Emotions In A Ubiquitous Smart Home.- Telephone conferences for fun: experimentation in people's homes.- Enliven Photographs: Enriching User Experience.- ICTs in the Home - Usability and Design Issues.- Changing only the aesthetic features of a product can affect its apparent usability.- Exploring technology influences between home, work, school: implications for managing ubiquitous technologies in the home.- Designing for Co-located Social media use in the home using the CASOME infrastructure.- Usability - Key Factor of Future Smart Home Systems.- Lessons from the Life of Domestic Objects.