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While the meter is running: computing in a capped world

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This forum looks at how the fields of interaction design and HCI can extend to cover "developing" communities around the world, ones that are gaining access to digital technology for the first time. Gary Marsden, Editor | <mail>[email protected]</mail>

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      cover image Interactions
      Interactions  Volume 18, Issue 2
      March + April 2011
      82 pages
      ISSN:1072-5520
      EISSN:1558-3449
      DOI:10.1145/1925820
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