An exploration of social requirements for exercise group formation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-82

  Wu, Mike ^a   Ranjan, Abhishek ^a   Truong, Khai N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Exercise; Exercise partners; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; EXERCISE; EXERCISE PARTNERS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GROUP FORMATIONS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERGONOMICS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 79952328154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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