Exploring mobile technologies for the urban homeless

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2883-2886

  Le Dantec, Christopher A ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeless; Social computing; Urban computing; Values in design

Indexed keywords

BUS PASS; ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; INFORMATION SHARING; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL IMPACT-OF-TECHNOLOGY; URBAN COMPUTING;

DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77953115126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1753876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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