A design theory for IT supporting online communities

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4082-4091

  Spagnoletti, Paolo ^a   Resca, Andrea ^a  

^a LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN THEORY; ELDERLY PERSONS; INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PRODUCT FEATURE; TESTABLE DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 84857977554     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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