"Girls don't waste time": Pre-adolescent attitudes toward ICT

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 875-880

  Hou, Weimin ^a   Kaur, Manpreet ^a   Komlodi, Anita ^a   Lutters, Wayne G ^a   Boot, Lee ^a   Cotten, Shelia R ^b   Morrell, Claudia ^a   Ozok, A Ant ^a   Tufekci, Zeynep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; ICT perceptions and use; Middle school students; User studies

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; EDUCATION PROGRAMS; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; ICT PERCEPTIONS; ICT USE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; KEY DIMENSIONS; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; SELF EFFICACY; USER STUDY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70449718507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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