Let’s work together to make breastfeeding work!

How to Work Together

This is a personal account of how a computer scientist and a social scientist have collaborated in a series of projects, including a study on hyperlink structure, an online content analysis tool, and an e-Social Science research initiative. Our experience suggests that, to make interdisciplinary work successful, the social scientist should spend time learning relevant technology whereas the non...

Work - arounds , Make - work ,

Human-Centered Computing column " The State of Cog-nitive Systems Engineering, " 1 we had a lengthy discussion on the question, What is a user-hostile system? The following quote is from that essay: The road to user-hostile systems is paved with user-centered intentions on the part of the designers. Even smart, clever, well-intentioned people can build devices that are fragile and hostile, devi...

Breastfeeding and returning to work.

The Work to Make a Home Network Work

Recently, households have begun to adopt networking technologies to interconnect devices within the home. Yet little is known about the consequences for households of setting up and living with these complex networks, nor the impact of such technologies on the routines of the home. In this paper, we report findings from an empirical study of households containing complex networks of computer an...

Classroom e-Science: Exposing the Work to Make it Work

Engaging students in science learning can be challenging, and incorporating new forms of technology into science has been shown to provide creative learning experiences. However most technology enhanced learning and e-Science experiences to date have been designed and run by researchers. There is significant challenge in moving these experiences into the hands of teachers to become an everyday ...