Folk computing: Revisiting oral tradition as a scaffold for co-present communities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 466-473

  Borovoy, Rick ^a   Silverman, Brian ^a   Gorton, Tim ^a   Klann, Jeff ^a   Notowidigdo, Matt ^a   Knep, Brian ^a   Resnick, Mitchel ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; CSCW; Education; Face to face; Folklore; Groupware; Handheld; Mobile computing; PDA; Social computing; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; CSCW; FACE-TO-FACE; FOLKLORE; HANDHELDS; PDA; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

EDUCATION; GROUPWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; SCAFFOLDS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HISTORIC PRESERVATION;

EID: 0035042130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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