Two nations divided by a common purpose

AI and HCI: Two Fields Divided by a Common Focus

48 AI MAGAZINE AI and human-computer interaction (HCI) are converging. “Usable AI” conference events in 2008 and 2009 preceded this special issue, and ACM will launch a widely-supported Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. AI techniques are in the toolset of more and more HCI researchers, and applications of machine learning are increasingly visible in the HCI literature. Other matu...

Divided by more than a common language.

Britain and the United States: Two Nations Divided by the Same Language (and Different Language Ideologies)

This article examines popular beliefs about language in Britain and the United States within a language ideology framework. With particular reference to Silverstein's discussion of second-order indexicality, it argues that language varieties in Britain and the United States are differently ideologized in such a way as to foreground social class groups in Britain and ethnic groups in the United ...

Divided by a Common Acronym: On the Fragmentation of CSCW

CSCW is in an advanced state of fragmentation. The acronym now, by and large, denotes widely diverging research programs that, apart from a shared name, have little or nothing in common. This situation obviously calls for clarification. Recounting the prehistory and formation of CSCW, the paper shows that CSCW, as a distinct research program devoted to the development of new technologies on the...

Are Institutions the Answer? Mitigating Sectarian Protest in Divided Nations

Ethnic violence has increased exponentially in the decades following World War II. As such, it is imperative that cures for the unique ills found in divided societies be discovered. This article seeks to quantitatively investigate the effici ency of formal political institutions in curbing ethnically-based violent protest in divided societies. As such, the dependent variable is the level of vio...