Designing to attract participation in a niche community for women in science & engineering

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 909-914

  Sahib, Zina ^a   Vassileva, Julita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design; Niche community; Online communities; Usability; User motivation; Women in science and engineering

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICE; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; USABILITY; USER MOTIVATION; WOMEN IN SCIENCE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DESIGN; ECOLOGY; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 70849126109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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