Designing to support social connectedness: The case of snowglobe

International Journal of Design

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 129-142

  Visser, Thomas ^a   Vastenburg, Martijn H ^a   Keyson, David V ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness systems; Field trial; Social connectedness; Tangible interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855717619     PISSN: 19913761     EISSN: 1994036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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