A death in the family: Opportunities for designing technologies for the bereaved

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1821-1830

  Massimi, Michael ^a   Baecker, Ronald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

bereaved; death; inheritance; memory; thanatosensitive design

Indexed keywords

BEREAVED; INTERVIEW STUDY; PERSONAL DIGITAL DEVICES; TECHNOLOGY USE;

DESIGN; DIGITAL DEVICES; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77954009962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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