Homeless young people and living with personal digital artifacts

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1697-1706

  Woelfer, Jill Palzkill ^a   Hendry, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Attachment; Homeless young people; Infrastructure; IPods; Mobile phones; Personal digital artifacts

Indexed keywords

ACCESS; ATTACHMENT; DIGITAL ARTIFACTS; HOMELESS YOUNG PEOPLE; INFRASTRUCTURE; IPODS; MUSIC PLAYERS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ARTIFACT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; YOUNG PEOPLES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 79958115512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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