Explaining culture: An outline of a theory of socio-technical interactions

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration, ICIC '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 111-120

  Vatrapu, Ravi K ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Comparative informatics; Computer supported intercultural collaboration (CSIC); Culture; Perception and appropriation of affordances; Socio technical interactions; Structures and functions of technological intersubjectivity

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

AFFORDANCES; COMPUTER SUPPORTED INTERCULTURAL COLLABORATIONS; INFORMATICS; INTERSUBJECTIVITY; SOCIOTECHNICAL;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77957963745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1841853.1841871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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