The HomeNet Field Trial of Residential Internet Services

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 55-63

  Kraut, Robert ^a   Scherlis, William ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Tridas ^b   Manning, Jane ^c   Kiesler, Sara ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INTERNET;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 0030417073     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/240483.240493     Document Type: Article

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