Dealing with death in design: Developing systems for the bereaved

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1001-1010

  Massimi, Michael ^a   Baecker, Ronald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Death; Design; Dying; Memory; Social support; Thanatosensitive design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN;

BEREAVEMENT; DEATH; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DYING; END OF LIVES; FOCUS GROUPS; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; SENSITIVE AREA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THANATOSENSITIVE DESIGNS;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 79958097393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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