Communities and Technologies 2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies 2015, Limerick, Ireland.

Homepage: https://2015.comtech.community//

Edited by Gabriela Avram, Fiorella De Cindio, Volkmar Pipek.

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States.

ISBN: 978-1-4503-3460-0

Table of Contents

Anonymous Quorans are still Quorans, just anonymous
Malte Paskuda, Myriam Lewkowicz Page 9-18
Exploring the mechanisms behind the assessment of usefulness of restaurant reviews
Claudia A. López, Rosta Farzan Page 19-27
Vote as you go blending interfaces for community engagement into the urban space
Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch, Ian McArthur, Joel Fredericks, Ronald Schroeter, Marcus Foth Page 29-37
Understanding future challenges for networked public display systems in community settings
Nemanja Memarovic Page 39-48
Participation in design between public sector and local communities
Susanne Bødker, Pär-Ola Zander Page 49-58
Lend me sugar, I am your neighbor! a content analysis of online forums for local communities
Claudia A. López, Rosta Farzan Page 59-67
Do we speak the same language? design goals and culture clashes in an online forum for young people
Annamari Martinviita, Leena Kuure, Pentti Luoma Page 69-78
Information sharing, scheduling, and awareness in community gardening collaboration
Xiaolan Wang, Ron Wakkary, Carman Neustaedter, Audrey Desjardins Page 79-88
Growing food in the city design ideations for urban residential gardeners
Peter Lyle, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Marcus Foth Page 89-97
Reducing “white elephant” ICT4D projects a community-researcher engagement
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman, Alvin W. Yeo Page 99-107
Community broadband initiatives what makes them successful and why?
Claire Wallace, Kathryn Vincent, Cristian Luguzan, Hilary Talbot Page 109-117
Urban ageing technology, agency and community in smarter cities for older people
Valeria Righi, Sergio Sayago, Josep Blat Page 119-128
Being present in online communities learning in citizen science
Gabriel H. Mugar, Carsten S. Østerlund, Corey Brian Jackson, Kevin Crowston Page 129-138
Studying a community of volunteers at a historic cemetery to inspire interaction concepts
Luigina Ciolfi, Daniela Petrelli Page 139-148
Cultural heritage communities technologies and challenges
Luigina Ciolfi, Areti Damala, Eva Hornecker, Monika Lechner, Laura A. Maye, Daniela Petrelli Page 149-152
CulTech2015 cultural diversity and technology design
Helen Ai He, Nemanja Memarovic, Amalia G. Sabiescu, Aldo de Moor Page 153-156
Encouraging collective intelligence for the common good how do we integrate the disparate pieces?
Douglas Schuler, Fiorella de Cindio, Anna De Liddo Page 157-159
Connected sustainability connecting sustainability-driven, grass-roots communities through technology
Nadia Pantidi, Jennifer Ferreira, Mara Balestrini, Mark J. Perry, Paul Marshall, John C. McCarthy Page 161-163
Digital cities 9 workshop – hackable cities from subversive city making to systemic change
Michiel de Lange, Nanna Verhoeff, Martijn de Waal, Marcus Foth, Martin Brynskov Page 165-167