Making my own home

My Home: Let Users design their own Social iTV

Understanding the home context leads to a better understanding of peoples activities within this special context. Thereby, it is important not to underestimate the social context in which new technologies are deployed and used. Moreover, the home context is a main place for individualization and domestication. This paper is discussing the home context as a main place for self-expression and use...

‘Simply my own’

My Own Private Ishkabibble

My experiences with social media for scholarship research and networking were certainly positive. Social media allowed me to form dialogues with scholars and readers outside my own field of expertise and create a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge. Having a presence in social media essentially meant I had a public platform that made my work accessible to a wider range of scholars – some ...

The Corner Treasury of Arcane and Neglected Philosophical Gems (of My Own Making)

Making Our Own Luck

QuickCheck-style property-based random testing [4] requires efficient generators for well-distributed random data satisfying complex logical predicates. Writing such generators by hand can be difficult and error prone. We propose a domain-specific language, Luck, in which generators are expressed by decorating predicates with lightweight annotations controlling both the distribution of generate...