Publics in practice: Ubiquitous computing at a shelter for homeless mothers

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1687-1696

  Le Dantec, Christopher A ^a   Farrell, Robert G ^b   Christensen, Jim E ^b   Bailey, Mark ^b   Ellis, Jason B ^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; Homeless; Longitudinal study; Qualitative methods; Urban computing

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONSTRUCTED PUBLIC; HOMELESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; QUALITATIVE METHOD; SHARED DISPLAYS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS; URBAN COMPUTING; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATIONS; WESTERN SOCIETIES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 79958149258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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