The paper explores the effectiveness of persona-based design methods in HCI education. We describe the experiences of our students in learning, practicing, and using personas in a number of design contexts. From these ...

Explores tensions caused by the USA PATRIOT Act in Libraries, the ever-increasing amount of Military-connected funds going to numerous academic departments, control of research in anthropology and technology in the midst ...

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) refers to any information that can be used to trace or identify an individual. With increasing online communication and a remote workforce, sharing PII has become mainstream online. ...

Extracted feature data augment information resources with concrete characterizations of their content, but only approximate to the meaningful high-level descriptions typically expected by digital musicology scholars (domain ...

Given the proliferation of makerspace experiences in K-12 education, there is a growing need to ensure accessibility for all learners, including those with disabilities and those at risk of academic failure. The limited ...

The rising expectations for public sharing of research data have triggered a greater awareness for describing and documenting data for potential use by a global community. For researchers, it is an opportunity to detail ...

As conversational agents (CAs) become more available and affordable, it is essential to discuss their impact on various application domains, including learning. In this study, we investigate the (1) feasibility of using ...

IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is a model of the bibliographic universe. Although initially its application to the digital world appears to be straightforward, upon closer examination puzzles ...

In this paper, we share our preliminary analyses of a particular case of a self-organizing group that responded to the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster in Japan. The way this group managed to send aid from ...