Rise of the expert amateur: DIY projects, communities, and cultures

NordiCHI 2010: Extending Boundaries - Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 295-304

  Kuznetsov, Stacey ^a   Paulos, Eric ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

DIY; Motivations of contributors; Online communities

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DIY; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL CAPITALS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650157357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868914.1868950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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