Although ‘Halcyon’ means serene environment which pervasive computing aims at, we have tried to present a different interpretation of this word. Through our approach, we look at it in context of achieving future ‘calm technology’. The paper gives a general overview of the state of pervasive computing today, proposes the ‘HALCYON Model’ and outlines the ‘social’ challenges faced by system design...

Although ‘Halcyon’ means serene environment which pervasive computing aims at, we have tried to present a different interpretation of this word. Through our approach, we look at it in context of achieving future ‘calm technology’. The paper gives a general overview of the state of pervasive computing today, proposes the ‘HALCYON Model’ and outlines the ‘social’ challenges faced by system design...

The convergence of TV content with online social network and the ubiquitous presence of mobile device present a new design space. We conducted interviews that included feedback on a mobile, social TV application prototype to explore this space and to gain understanding of people’s current practices around TV watching. Our interviews helped us gain insights into current TV watching practices, qu...

Aceptado: 05/12/2013 The objective of this study is to show how conversation analysis, a sociological discipline, approaches the study of social institutions. Social institutions are conceived as the crystallization of members’ communicative, interactional practices. Two institutional domains—psychiatric interviews and broadcast news interviews —and a specific interactional practice—‘formulatio...

BACKGROUND Dimensions of social capital relevant to health in pregnancy are sparsely described in the literature. This study explores dimensions of social capital and the mechanisms in which they could affect the health of rural Sri Lankan pregnant women. METHODS An exploratory qualitative study of solicited diaries written by pregnant women on their social relationships, diary interviews and...

InterViews is a library of C++ classes that assist in the design and implementation of graphical interfaces. InterViews makes building applications for workstations easier by providing abstractions that hide the details of the underlying window system. The library contains common toolkit objects such as scroll bars, menus, and buttons. It also has mechanisms for composing these elements into co...