A field study of community bar: (Mis)-matches between theory and practice

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 89-98

  Romero, Natalia ^a   McEwan, Gregor ^b   Greenberg, Saul ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Casual interaction; Distributed groupware; Locales

Indexed keywords

CASUAL INTERACTION; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FIELD STUDIES; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES; THEORY AND PRACTICE; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950507895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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