Social dynamics of early stage co-design in developing regions

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1087-1096

  Ramachandran, Divya ^a   Kam, Matthew ^a   Chiu, Jane ^b   Canny, John ^a   Frankel, James F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c Frankel and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing regions; Digital divide; ICT4D

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGIONS; DIGITAL DIVIDE; SOCIAL DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INNOVATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 35348900237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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