Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 743-752

  Luk, Rowena ^a   Ho, Melissa ^b   Aoki, Paul M ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing regions; Ghana; Organizational interfaces; Social networking; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MACHINE DESIGN;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES; GHANA; ITERATIVE DESIGNS; MEDICAL COMMUNITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL INTERFACES; REMOTE CONSULTATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 57649149963     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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