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aSister: scheduling for homeless women with special needs

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Kshitij Gupta,

Adwait Joshi,

Jamie Allison McAtee,

Nigel Savio VazAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358938

Published: 05 April 2008 Publication History

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Homeless women need special care and attention especially during pregnancy or while trying to overcome substance abuse. We present a solution to help counselors working with these women. The solution allows the counselor to send text messages, which can be used to remind women of their daily schedule, as well as provide them with health and nutritional information. The system will also serve as a persuasive tool to help them develop positive behavior through the delivery of encouraging messages. Cell phone technology usage is increasing rapidly among the homeless population. The system uses text messaging which is an inexpensive and non-obtrusive method of communication. Our study contains details on the design of such a system and also attempts to evaluate the efficacy of such a text messaging system.

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Mohan NSarma AToyama KChandwani RSingh PKumar NVeeraraghavan R(2019)Food-availability SMS system for U.S. homeless communitiesProceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/3287098.3287128(1-5)Online publication date: 4-Jan-2019
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Smith WWadley GDaly OWebb MHughson JHajek JParker AWoodward-Kron RStory DBrereton M(2017)Designing an app for pregnancy care for a culturally and linguistically diverse communityProceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3152771.3152807(337-346)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2017
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Le Dantec CChristensen JBailey MFarrell REllis JDanis CKellogg WEdwards WBertelsen OKrogh PHalskov KGraves Petersen M(2010)A tale of two publicsProceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/1858171.1858174(11-20)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1858171.1858174

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aSister: scheduling for homeless women with special needs
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping
      2. User centered design

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Mohan NSarma AToyama KChandwani RSingh PKumar NVeeraraghavan R(2019)Food-availability SMS system for U.S. homeless communitiesProceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/3287098.3287128(1-5)Online publication date: 4-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3287098.3287128
Smith WWadley GDaly OWebb MHughson JHajek JParker AWoodward-Kron RStory DBrereton M(2017)Designing an app for pregnancy care for a culturally and linguistically diverse communityProceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3152771.3152807(337-346)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3152771.3152807
Le Dantec CChristensen JBailey MFarrell REllis JDanis CKellogg WEdwards WBertelsen OKrogh PHalskov KGraves Petersen M(2010)A tale of two publicsProceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/1858171.1858174(11-20)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1858171.1858174

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