doGooder: Fostering volunteer communities to serve the homeless

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3843-3848

  Cerretani, Jacqueline ^a   Laing, James ^a   Perez, Melissa ^a   Halai, Sameer ^a   Morse, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Design; Homelessness; Social networks; Social reinforcement; Volunteerism

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; HOMELESSNESS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT; VOLUNTEERISM;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049089071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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