December 10, 2007
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Bonnie and Don are briefly mentioned in this article in the O.C. Register: "1. In Beijing, anthropologist and informatics Professor Bonnie Nardi sat with gamers at Internet cafés, studying how they used "World of Warcraft," the immensely popular computer game produced by Blizzard Entertainment of Irvine. Nardi learned that the Chinese are far more likely than Americans to play the most challenging version of the game. She also says that, "People here play with brothers and sisters. But in China, people don't have brothers and sisters, for the most part, so friend relationships are very important." " "5. Informatics Professor Don Patterson visited villages in South Africa and Zambia to examine how such aid groups as the Agathos Foundation use information technology to help care for children, particularly orphans whose parents died of AIDS. He also worked on a cell phone tool that makes it easy for donors who give money for aid projects to get feedback about how their money is spent." |
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