A tale of two publics: Democratizing design at the margins

DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-20

  Le Dantec, Christopher A ^a   Christensen, Jim E ^b   Bailey, Mark ^b   Farrell, Robert G ^b   Ellis, Jason B ^b   Danis, Catalina M ^b   Kellogg, Wendy A ^b   Edwards, W Keith ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

constructed publics; design; homeless; urban computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149333168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1858171.1858174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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