Technology in spiritual formation: An exploratory study of computer mediated religious communications

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 199-208

  Wyche, Susan P ^a   Hayes, Gillian R ^a   Harvel, Lonnie D ^b   Grinter, Rebecca E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Religious technologies; Spirituality; User experience

Indexed keywords

RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATIONS; RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGIES; SPIRITUALITY; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547151142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180875.1180908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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