Single Display Groupware (SDG) lets multiple people, each with their own input device, interact simultaneously on a single display. With two or more people potentially working in the same or nearby areas of the display, the actions of one could interfere with others, e.g., by raising menus and bringing tool palettes into areas where others are working. Interaction techniques could be used to mi...

Many disabled persons in the world are unable to communicate verbally with those around them. This may be because they have motor-control di culties and so cannot operate the muscles which actually produce the speech. Conversely, it may be a neurophysiological problem, either congenital or as a result of trauma, resulting in an inability of the brain to create the speech in the rst place. Eithe...

People: The national Danish Psychiatric Register records all psychiatric admissions for the Danish population (5.3 million people). During the enrolment period, 7199 people were diagnosed with a single mild, moderate, or severe depressive episode according to ICD-10 criteria (mild, 1103 people; moderate, 3182 people; severe, 2914 people). Temporary discharge and readmission within 3 days was co...

The paper presents the results of a qualitative research on friendship networks of single people. The research has been undertaken using social network analysis tools (egonetworks) and qualitative interviews, on a non-representative sample of 23 heterosexual singles of Milan, aged between 25 and 35 years, 12 male and 11 female. Framed within the theory of community, we formulated some questions...