Fear and the city: Role of mobile services in harnessing safety and security in urban use contexts

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1841-1850

  Blom, Jan ^a   Viswanathan, Divya ^a   Spasojevic, Mirjana ^b   Go, Janet ^b   Acharya, Karthik ^a   Ahonius, Robert ^a  

^a Nokia Research Center Bangalore   (India)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

user interfaces; user centered design

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT DESIGNS; FIELD TRIAL; HIGH FIDELITY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE SERVICE; ONLINE SURVEYS; QUALITATIVE DATA; SAN FRANCISCO; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; URBAN CONTEXT; USE CONTEXT; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER RESEARCH; USER-CENTERED DESIGN;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN;

EID: 77953979233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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