We are delighted to announce the release of our digitized archive of the newsletters of the Computer Use in Social Services Network (CUSSN). CUSSN was formed by a group of US human service technology specialists meeting at a Council of Social Work Education conference in Louisville Kentucky in 1981. The contents of the CUSSN newsletters reveal the preoccupations of human service technologists…
Human service technology pioneers project
To mark thirty years of the Journal of Technology in Human Services we decided to organise a husITa pioneers project. Over the coming weeks and months we will post short audio or video tracks interviewing key people who have, for many years, championed the cause of technology in human services.
The challenge of behavior change digital games
The 75 billion digital game industry is comparable in revenue to the combined television/film industry and is growing at approximately 33% each year (1) (2) (3). Anyone who has visited and probably lost money at a gaming establishment like Las Vegas knows that well designed games are so powerful they can even separate most people from their hard earned money.…
husITa16 to be held in Seoul, South Korea as part of SWSD2016
Our next international conference husITa16 will be in held in Seoul, South Korea as part of the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development. husITa will be reviewing and coordinating all symposia, workshops and papers submitted on the subtheme human service technology. Submissions are now open for symposia, workshops and abstracts and a conference discount is available to all member of the husITa mailing…
Digital divide challenges of children in low-income families: The case of Shanghai
In this blog post,Yu-cheung Wong describes the paper he presented at #husita14. The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. This research paper explored the issue of the digital divide in Shanghai with particular attention to children from low-income families. It examined whether a difference in the Internet access of…
Making sense of our tangled sociotechnical world.
In this blog post, Neil Ballantyne describes the paper he presented at #husita14. The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. I’d like you to join me in a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that you wake up one morning to discover that something very peculiar has occurred. All human technologies…
The teleherence project.
In this blog post, Dick Schoech describes the paper he presented at #husita14. The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. The paper describes the 5 year development and testing of a web-phone system that delivers a series of voice or text messages as well as questions that require…
Video assisted visitation in the family reunification process.
In this guest blog post Andrew Quinn describes the paper he presented at #husITa14. The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Recently, Quinn, Sage, and Tunseth surveyed child family workers about the use of video assisted visitation (VAV) in the family reunification process. The catalyst for the research included issues…
New media literacies and participatory culture
In this guest blog post, Jimmy Young describes the paper he presented at #husITa14. The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Social media and digital technologies have revolutionized the way people interact and share information. These same technologies are transforming education in dramatic ways and many scholars have proposed ideas…
Online activism: Indignation, inspiration, and interaction.
In this guest blog post, Rachel Gong describes the paper she presented at #husITa14. The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. What challenges, advantages, and opportunities does the web offer activists engaged in bringing about social change? This paper, part of a project that examines the use of the web…