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Organizations make extensive use of Big Data to classify and profile users, in order to effectively personalize their online messages. Big Data is also increasingly relied on as a photograph of society, creating expectations of an increasingly more accurate predictive science. Yet, there are systemic challenges in using Big Data as a comprehensive source of information, and there is also public resistance...
Medication reminder solutions have become a matter of concern in health-care research, as advancements in treatments and medication may be offset by patients' low compliance to medication schedule. In this context, an efficient reminder system should empower patients to accurately follow the prescribed medication program. In order to achieve this, we propose an architecture for a wearable self-care...
This paper is a reflection on how video games support representations of history by using the interactive particularities of the medium. History appears as a space that can be recreated through technologically-mediated performances in which players are assigned the role of participants in a story made available by design. Fiction and realism are constitutive parts of historical games in which players...
We analyze digital rhetoric in two computer-supported collaborative settings of writing and learning, focusing on major depression: Wikipedia and Quora. We examine the procedural rhetoric of access to and interaction with information, and the textual rhetoric of individual and aggregated entries. Through their different organization of authorship, publication and reading, the two settings create divergent...
We examine online sociality in Quora, a collaborative Q&A platform, through statistical analysis of 248 answers. Quora members interact through technology and with technology, creating different regimes of sociality: a regime of visibility, in which users and technology assemble the ranked list of answers; a regime of recognition, in which members rely on answers and authors' identity to acknowledge...
This paper discusses opportunities for learning about biographies through Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopaedia. We examine argumentation and interpretation practices in Steve Jobs's entry and its associated Talk pages, focusing on editors' debates on whether Jobs was an "inventor". We highlight argumentation from delegated voice as a core element of Wikipedian knowledge building; contributors'...
In this paper we are exploring how a process of collaborative learning evolves in an academic wiki space. In order to trace the potential of such a technological environment, we assume a comparative perspective by analyzing its specific structural features in comparison to other similar solutions designed to facilitate communication in project based activities (discussion boards, instant messaging...
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