Invisible information systems

Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-2611

  Waller, Vivienne ^a   Johnston, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information system analysis and design; Invisible information systems; IS methodologies; Situated action; Situated computing; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; INVISIBLE INFORMATION; INVISIBLE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IS METHODOLOGIES; SITUATED ACTIONS; SITUATED COMPUTING; UBICOMP; WORK ACTIVITIES; WORK DOMAINS;

DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857469514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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