AT&T have teamed up with a company called Pantech to produce a phone that is particularly easy to use. It seems that they are targeting an older consumer according to some of the reviews, but Pantech says its also designed …
As you may or may not know, “phishing” is the masquerading of a an untrustworthy individual as a known trustworthy party for the means of extracting (often financially) sensitive information from users. A common example of phishing is am malicious-intending …
Is the issue of risk in computer security and digital privacy inherently different from other risks? Is there any reason that the perception of these risks should fundamentally vary from the perception of other risks?
If digital risks are not
In reading Marc Langeinrich’s article “A Privacy Awareness System for Ubiquitous Computing Environments,” I was captivated by his suggestion that privacy awareness systems should resemble the fundamental principles of democratic societies. According to Langeinrich, people should be able to be
I was recently awarded a grant to setup a project that has members from multiple countries performing identical user studies investigating cultural differences in user acceptance of pervasive health technologies. I’ll be working with Yvonne Rogers at the Open University
I’m not talking about the vegetable that tastes like slightly flavored water. Celery is an “email without the computer” service targeting elders. For $10-15 bucks a month, and the price of a fax/printer (~$90), people can send an elder an
Contrary to popular ideas that older people are technophobic, research shows that older people want to use technology when they see that it will be useful to them. Caregivers believe that technology can reduce some of the burdens of caregiving.
The PervasiveHealth Conference will be held in London exactly one year from today (April1-3, 2009), and yours truly is co-chair of the technical program committee. This conference is in its third year and is getting pretty competitive (accept rate of …