Claim Mobile: When to fail a technology

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1833-1842

  Densmore, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Braided communications; Failure; HCI4D; ICTD; Mobile phone; SMS

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING REGIONS; HCI4D; HEALTH FACILITIES; ICTD; LEARNING FROM FAILURES; MEDICAL SERVICES; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; SCALE-UP; SMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE PHONES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84862059615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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