Understanding geocaching practices and motivations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1177-1186

  O'Hara, Kenton ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diary study; Geocache; GPS (global positioning system); Interviews; Location based computing

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION;

DIARY STUDY; GEOCACHE; GPS (GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM); INTERVIEWS; LOCATION-BASED COMPUTING;

SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

EID: 57649146989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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