The calendar is crucial: Coordination and awareness through the family calendar

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Neustaedter, Carman ^a,c   Brush, A J Bernheim ^b   Greenberg, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Calendars; Coordination; Families

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CALENDARS; COORDINATION; DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES; FAMILIES; FAMILY LIFE; MONOCENTRIC;

EID: 67949092640     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1502800.1502806     Document Type: Article

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