Where there's a will there's a way: Mobile media sharing in urban india

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 753-762

  Smyth, Thomas N ^a   Kumar, Satish ^b   Medhi, Indrani ^b   Toyama, Kentaro ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bluetooth; mobile phone; sharing; social networking; video

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DISTRIBUTORS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; END USERS; INSTITUTIONAL RULES; INTERFACE COMPLEXITY; INTERNET ACCESS; MOBILE MEDIA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SHARING; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SPEED BUMPS; USER MOTIVATION;

BLUETOOTH; COMPUTER VIRUSES; ECONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; VIRUSES;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77954003386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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