Scarring a generation of school children through poor introduction of information technology in schools

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 300-303

  Straker, Leon ^a   Harris, Courtenay ^b   Zandvliet, David ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Countrywide Injury Management ^*  (Australia)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SCHOOL CHILDREN;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 1842735945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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