Designing ubiquitous information systems for a community of homeless young people: Precaution and a way forward

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 565-573

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Community informatics; Designer value; Envisioning; Homelessness; Non profit service agencies; Poverty; Precautionary principle; Value scenario; Value Sensitive Design; Youth

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY INFORMATICS; DESIGNER VALUE; ENVISIONING; HOMELESSNESS; NON-PROFIT; POVERTY; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; VALUE SCENARIO; VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN; YOUTH;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 80055022717     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-010-0341-5     Document Type: Article

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