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Lu Xiao
Researcher at Syracuse University
Publications - 114
Citations - 1066
Lu Xiao is an academic researcher from Syracuse University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Collaborative learning. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 109 publications receiving 956 citations. Previous affiliations of Lu Xiao include Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology & Pennsylvania State University.
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Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field
Cecelia Merkel,Lu Xiao,Umer Farooq,Craig H. Ganoe,Roderick L. Lee,John M. Carroll,Mary Beth Rosson +6 more
TL;DR: The Civic Nexus project is a three year participatory design project that involves working with community groups to increase their capacity to solve local community problems through the use of leading edge computing tools.
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Managing technology use and learning in nonprofit community organizations: methodological challenges and opportunities
TL;DR: The methodology of working with nonprofit organizations through three case examples from the field illustrates that nonprofit organizations are able to and can indeed sustain their IT management practices through various methodological techniques.
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Beyond being aware
TL;DR: This paper considers awareness support in several community informatics contexts from the standpoint of better-leveraging affordances unique to remote community-oriented interactions and suggests positive design strategies to design awareness support ''beyond'' what is typical in traditional face-to-face interchange.
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Sustaining Computer Use and Learning in Community Computing Contexts: Making Technology Part of "Who They are and What They Do"
Cecelia Merkel,Mike Clitherow,Umer Farooq,Lu Xiao,Craig H. Ganoe,John M. Carroll,Mary Beth Rosson +6 more
TL;DR: This paper describes work promoting technological sustainability among community organizations in Centre County, Pennsylvania (USA) and reports on a joint effort to provide web design training for area nonprofits using this shared experience to consider ways of bridging research and practice when addressing sustainability in community computing contexts.
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Designing the Next Generation of Distributed, Geocollaborative Tools
TL;DR: This paper considers the design issues inherent in distributed geospatial software and looks at providing a non-spatial communication channel, supporting real-time synchronous awareness, designing interaction techniques, establishing common ground, and using floor control and attention techniques.