Designing a phone broadcasting system for Urban Sex Workers in India

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 267-276

  Sambasivan, Nithya ^a   Weber, Julie Sage ^b   Cutrell, Edward ^b  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

HCI4D; ICT4D; India; M4D; Urban Sex Workers

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; TELEPHONE SETS;

AT-RISK POPULATION; BROADCASTING SYSTEMS; DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION; HCI4D; ICT4D; INDIA; M4D; PHONE-BASED; URBAN SEX WORKER; WORKERS';

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 79958164154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1978980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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