Hermes@Home: Supporting awareness and intimacy between distant family members

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 206, Issue , 2006, Pages 23-30

  Saslis Lagoudakis, Georgios ^a   Cheverst, Keith ^a   Dix, Alan ^a   Fitton, Dan ^a   Rouncefield, Mark ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption; appropriation; awareness; communication; deployment; home; sensitive settings; situated display; technology probe; user study

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AWARENESS; DEPLOYMENT; SITUATED DISPLAYS; USER STUDY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MESSAGE PASSING; PROBES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 57049158532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228175.1228183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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