Information systems 'in the wild': Supporting activity in the world

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 577-588

  Waller, Vivienne ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affordance; Information systems design; Information systems theory; Situated systems; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; AFFORDANCES; ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY; INFORMATION SOURCES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS THEORY; SITUATED SYSTEMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77649324834     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290903188971     Document Type: Article

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