Being-with: A study of familiarity

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 447-454

  Turner, Phil ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Being with; Borgmann; Familiarity; Heidegger; Learning; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

BEING-WITH; BORGMANN; FAMILIARITY; HEIDEGGER; LEARNING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 53149092844     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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