Introducing seniors to now media technology: New ways of thinking for a new target group

Technical Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 464-470

  Schwender, Clemens ^a   Köhler, Christoph ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

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