Social sciences
Interpreting the Community: Information Practices and/for Deviance
Drawing on an ethnographic study with online as well as offline components, this paper investigates information practices related to underground body modification procedures used to permanently (and subversively) alter one’s appearance. In contrast to procedures…
You’re the Manager but I’m the Mayor: Understanding Foursquare Check-ins in Claimed Venues
This talk is based on a work in progress. The presentation includes preliminary findings and analysis from an ethnographic study of Foursquare users in the Boston area, focusing on their relationships with “friends” as well…
Pex4Fun: Cloud Computing in the CS Classroom
One Mouse Per Child
Emerging from an ongoing relationship between Microsoft Research Connections and Miguel Nussbaum at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the One Mouse Per Child project is a broad spectrum of experiments in the education space…
Unified Game Layer For Education
Supporting collaborations between major research institutions and Microsoft Research Connections, this program intends to build the foundations for a unified game layer for education. By instrumenting our everyday experiences, we can transform them into gameful…