Home Informatics and Telematics: Ict for the Next Billion

Empowerment and Digital Divide.- Convergence opportunities and factors influencing the use of internet and telephony by rural women in South Africa and India towards empowerment.- Untapped Resources! Amazing Potential! TeNeT's Rural BPO Initiative.- A Set of Heuristic Measurements for Evaluating the Inclusiveness of a Technology.- The Tech-Enabled Neighborhood: Findings from an experience in Tecámac, Mexico.- ICT and Learning.- Intelligent Tutoring Systems using Reinforcement Learning to teach Autistic Students.- Teaching - Learning Strategies in Interactive Education - A Case Study.- On the role of awareness systems for supporting parent involvement in young children's schooling.- ICT - Emerging Commmunities and Societal Issues.- Community Software Applications.- Being Social @ Work: Designing for Playfully Mediated Social Awareness in Work Environments.- Shaping social beliefs: A community sensitive health information system for rural India.- "Can we trust the Indians with our data?" An examination of the emergence of information privacy laws in India.- Home Applications and Family Uses.- Off Their Trolley - Understanding Online Grocery Shopping Behaviour.- Containing Family Clutter.- Digital Photo Sharing and Emotions In A Ubiquitous Smart Home.- Telephone conferences for fun: experimentation in people's homes.- Enliven Photographs: Enriching User Experience.- ICTs in the Home - Usability and Design Issues.- Changing only the aesthetic features of a product can affect its apparent usability.- Exploring technology influences between home, work, school: implications for managing ubiquitous technologies in the home.- Designing for Co-located Social media use in the home using the CASOME infrastructure.- Usability - Key Factor of Future Smart Home Systems.- Lessons from the Life of Domestic Objects.