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Pervasive science: using mobile devices and the cloud to support science education

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In this forum we celebrate research that helps to successfully bring the benefits of computing technologies to children, older adults, people with disabilities, and other populations that are often ignored in the design of mass-marketed products.

Juan Pablo Hourcade, Editor

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          cover image Interactions
          Interactions  Volume 19, Issue 4
          July + August 2012
          89 pages
          ISSN:1072-5520
          EISSN:1558-3449
          DOI:10.1145/2212877
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