This article discusses the consequences for the fundamentals of interaction design given the introduction of mobile devices with increased sensing capability. Location-aware systems are discussed as one example of the possibilities. The article provides eight challenges to the mobile HCI research community, and makes suggestions for how the International Journal of Mobile HCI could contribute t...

this study has investigated the effects of ict to increase efficiency and empowerment of rural women using data envelopment analysis (dea) to investigate the mechanism of effectiveness of information technology (ict) on the efficiency and empowerment of rural women in the village of gharn abad, golestan province. in this study, using survey methods, 38 users and 25 non-users of technology (cont...

In this paper, we present a Natural Language Processing (NLP) based Multi-document Question Answering system (EUREQA) which intelligently constructs the answers from single and multiple documents. Answers to the questions may not be present in a single document but may require multiple documents. To be used in any real scenario, QA systems must go beyond local search in a document and deal with...

A literature review on cross-cultural personas reveals both, a trend in projects lacking accomplishment and personas reinforcing previous biases. We first suggest why failures or incompleteness may have ensued, while then we entice a thoughtful alteration of the design process by creating and validating personas together with those that they embody. Personas created in people’s own terms suppor...

It is well known that the economic development of a country largely depends on and living standards in rural areas. Yet, it also fact contrary there major problem faced by entrepreneurs, namely illiteracy. Illiteracy causes some other problems, including lack financial resources, low business management skills, proper marketing, human resource management. The same situation encountered bamboo c...