What they want and what they get: A study of light-weight technologies for online communities

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 46, Issue , 2003, Pages 135-146

  Da Silva, Elton José ^a,b   De Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius ^b,c   Prates, Raquel Oliveira ^b,d   Nicolaci Da costa, Ana Maria ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Informatica   (Brazil)

^c PUC Rio   (Brazil)

^d IME/UERJ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Group applications; Online communities; Semiotic inspection.; Social technical gaps in computer technologies; Underlying discourse unveiling method (UDUM)

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; BROAD BANDS; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN DECISIONS; LIGHT WEIGHT; OFFLINE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; POTENTIAL USERS; SCIENTIFIC ISSUES; TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES; UNDERLYING DISCOURSE UNVEILING METHOD (UDUM);

INSPECTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMIOTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77953857598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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