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Over the past 15 years, children have become more integrally involved in the design of their technology. In this paper, we present the idea that design partnering methods, specifically Cooperative Inquiry, used for designing technology with children can and should now be extended into informal and formal educational settings.

in the almost new literature of social capital, the concept has mainly been considered domestic, while we can find social capital beyond state borders. in this article social capital has been connected to international relations through micro and macro aspects. the effect of information technology on social capital is then mentioned on both domestic and transnational scales. information technol...

The aim of this study was to conduct a preliminary analysis of relations between child and environmental variables, including factors related to communication aid provision, and participation in informal everyday activities in a sample of children with complex communication needs. Ninety-seven caregivers of children provided with communication aids responded to a questionnaire survey. Child var...

We describe a new approach to interface design called algebraic semiotics, combining semiotics with algebraic speciication to give a rigorous theory of representation quality, and we apply it to the tatami distributed cooperative proving project. This project uses standard html, Java, etc. for remote proof browsing, servers for remote proof execution, a protocol to maintain truth of distributed...

This paper discusses the use of a shared cooperative notebook by a group of software engineers and support staff distributed over two sites The designof the notebook is described and results of the pilot trial reported It was found that the system was an effective means of shanng information for the non-technical staff but required much greater integration with other information systems and the...

In this paper, the cooperative games with fuzzy coalitions were discussed. Several integral representations which described the fuzzy character function of the cooperative game were given, and the important solution –-the Shapley function was also investigated. For the cooperative game where the rate of participation of every player in a coalition is allowed to range within interval [0,1], the ...

For many years cooperative design was primarily concerned with the development of IT supported systems for professional users. However, the cooperative design approach can embrace other social practices such as children’s everyday life. At a methodological level there is no difference in designing with adults or children. However there is a need for new methods to support communication and coll...

This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural network to model the coordination of informal social control in a small group of adaptive agents confronted with a social dilemma. This model incorporates two mechanisms of social influence, informal sanctions and imi...