DEPARTMENT:
Editorial pointers
Editorial Pointers
Diane Crawford
Page 5
DEPARTMENT:
News track
News Track
CACM Staff
Pages 9-10
DEPARTMENT:
Forum
Forum
Pages 11-13
COLUMN:
The business of software
The Unconscious Art of Software Testing
The subtle psychology of testing.
Phillip G. Armour
Pages 15-18
DEPARTMENT:
Hot links
Top 10 Downloads from Acm's Digital Library
Pages 19-20
COLUMN:
Staying connected
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
Biometrics is pointing its way into everyday applications. But figuring out how it fits into telecom and wireless services, never mind society, might just get downright touchy.
Meg McGinity
Pages 21-23
DEPARTMENT:
President's letter
Minority-Minority and Minority-Majority Technology Transfer
Finding technology solutions to help those in need can often lead to welcomed answers for all if we look at the big picture.
David A. Patterson
Pages 25-26
COLUMN:
Viewpoint
Global Linguistic Diversity For the Internet
The Script Encoding Initiative wants to encode the world's unencoded scripts, making electronic text communication possible for millions of native speakers.
Deborah Anderson
Pages 27-28
Creating a National K--12 Computer Science Community
ACM launches a new organization to help teachers, and ultimately students, to better appreciate the educational and professional opportunities inspired by the computing sciences.
Chris Stephenson
Pages 29-31
SPECIAL ISSUE:
Interaction design and children
Introduction
Today's technologies are shaping the way children live, learn, and play. Technologies can provide a wealth of meaningful new experiences and support children's exploration of their neighborhoods, other cultures, and even the …
Allison Druin, Juan Pablo Hourcade
Pages 32-34
The Challenges of Idc: What Have We Learned from Our Past?
A conversation with Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Kay.
David Kestenbaum
Pages 35-38
Working with Young Children as Technology Design Partners
A case study illustrates how even young children can contribute to the technology design process.
Mona Leigh Guha, Allison Druin, Gene Chipman, Jerry Alan Fails, Sante Simms, Allison Farber
Pages 39-42
Children's Intuitive Gestures in Vision-Based Action Games
Novel computer vision-based game technologies aim to give players more immersive and physically challenging gaming experiences.
Johanna Höysniemi, Perttu Hämäläinen, Laura Turkki, Teppo Rouvi
Pages 44-50
The Material Side of Educational Technology
Materials science presents an amazing array of unique substances offering a rich, and challenging, dimension to future educational tools and technologies.
Michael Eisenberg
Pages 51-54
Ubi-Learning Integrates Indoor and Outdoor Experiences
Digital augmentation dissolves many of the physical barriers to learning by offering tools to integrate data and discoveries that travel with students as they explore new terrain.
Yvonne Rogers, Sara Price, Cliff Randell, Danae Stanton Fraser, Mark Weal, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Pages 55-59
Story Creation in Virtual Game Worlds
Allowing young people to create computer games they will ultimately want to play not only offers key educational benefits but builds self-esteem and teamwork skills.
Judy Robertson, Judith Good
Pages 61-65
Evaluating End-User Training Programs
With some planning and coordination, organizations can implement an evaluation scheme to get the most out of their computer skills training programs.
RadhaKanta Mahapatra, Vincent S. Lai
Pages 66-70
-sability Engineering Methods For Software Developers
The human-computer interaction community aims to increase the awareness and acceptance of established methods among software practitioners. Indeed, awareness of the basic usability methods will drive an Information Society for …
Andreas Holzinger
Pages 71-74
-sing Asset Specificity and Asset Scope to Measure the Value of It
A technique for quantifying the contribution of IT to a firm's value and performance makes it possible to compare the value of IT in different firms and industries.
John Tillquist, Waymond Rodgers
Pages 75-80
Locality in a Web of Streams
Identifying a framework for addressing the challenges inherent in the complexity of contemporary Web architecture.
Rodrigo Fonseca, Virgílio Almeida, Mark Crovella
Pages 82-88
A Framework For Evaluating Third-Party Logistics
3PL providers with advanced IT are expected to lower logistics costs and integrate the supply chain with increased productivity and growth. Here, a set of criteria for choosing the most suitable provider.
Ganesh Vaidyanathan
Pages 89-94
Timeliness of Investor Relations Data at Corporate Web Sites
Online data for investors is often stale, even when of high quality. How can this situation be improved?
Michael Ettredge, John Gerdes Jr.
Pages 95-100
Using the Dea Methodology to Rank Software Technical Efficiency
The use of Data Envelopment Analysis to evaluate software efficiency offers a more formal and effective option.
Ines Herrero, Jose L. Salmeron
Pages 101-105
COLUMN:
Technical opinion
Assessing the Value of Is Journals
Using journal citation reports to determine the influence and impact of a variety of journals publishing IS research.
Stuart J. Barnes
Pages 110-112
COLUMN:
Inside risks
Not Teaching Viruses and Worms Is Harmful
George Ledin Jr.
Page 144