It is fitting that the 50 anniversary meeting of HICSS marks the initiation of this new minitrack related to social media. The focus on the intersections of digital and social media with culture, identity and, indeed, inclusion begins to fill an increasingly significant gap in our research, teaching, and practice. Digital and social media are now ubiquitous, and there has been much recent resea...

Digital inclusion and citizenship are closely related, because they strive for equal opportunities related to education, learning, better living, wellbeing, access to information and building up knowledge. ICT are advantageous for everyone, but for persons with disabilities they have an utmost importance – they bridge the gap between impossible and possible ways. Many legal frameworks and pract...

Over the centuries, stories have moved from the physical environment (around campfires and on the stage), to the printed page, then to movie, television and computer screens. Today, using wireless and tag sensing technologies, researchers and storytellers are able to bring digital stories back into our physical environment. The Tangible Viewpoints system explores how physical objects and augmen...

Title of Document: PAPIERCRAFT: A PAPER-BASED INTERFACE TO SUPPORT INTERACTION WITH DIGITAL DOCUMENTS Chunyuan Liao, Ph.D, 2009 Directed By: Associate Professor, François Guimbretière, Department of Computer Science Many researchers extensively interact with documents using both computers and paper printouts, which provide an opposite set of supports. Paper is comfortable to read from and write...

Mental health problems are common and pose a tremendous societal burden in terms of cost, morbidity, quality of life, and mortality. The great majority of people experience barriers that prevent access to treatment, aggravated by a lack of mental health specialists. Digital mental health is potentially useful in meeting the treatment needs of large numbers of people. A growing number of efficac...

Advances in digital technologies and proliferation of the Internet as an ubiquitous platform for communication and information open up new opportunities for teaching and learning in the 21st century. In the past decade, K-12 schools have made considerable investments in the educational technology infrastructure, as evident by the decrease in students-per-computer ratios from 10.8 to 4 in a 10-y...

With advancements in technology and culture, our language changes. We invent new words, add or change meanings of existing words and change names of existing things. Left untackled, these changes in language create a gap between the language known by users and the language stored in our digital archives. In particular, they affect our possibility to firstly find content and secondly interpret t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of post-structuralist theory to understanding hypertext and the World Wide Web, and the challenge posed by digital information technology to the practices of the information profession. Design/methodology/approach – The method adopted is that of a critical study. Findings – The paper argues for the importance of post-structuralis...

Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide is a text produced by, and apparently primarily intended for, educational policy makers on national and international levels. Its genesis is located in the Fifth NCAL/OECD Roundtable entitled The Lifelong Learning and New Technologies Gap: Reaching the Disadvantaged, held at the U.S. National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), University of Pennsylvania, 8-10...

Membrane-binding of a human blood clotting protein, factor VIII (FVIII), was studied by cryoelectron microscopy. Well visible gap junctions between adjacent phosphatydyl serine containing phospholipid vesicles were observed upon FVIII association. Digital images acquired with a JEOL2010FEG transmission electron microscope equipped with a 4x4k CCD camera were analysed with the Digital Micrograph...