My grandfather's iPod: An investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts

ECCE 2011 - European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2011: 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 149-156

  Turner, Phil ^a   Turner, Susan ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attachment; personal digital artefacts; sustainable interaction design

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENTS; INTERACTION DESIGN; PERSONAL DIGITAL ARTEFACTS; REPERTORY GRIDS; RESEARCH APPROACH; RESEARCH LIMITATIONS; SUSTAINABLE INTERACTION DESIGN; UNDERLYING FACTORS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84255197281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2074712.2074742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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