From death to final disposition: Roles of technology in the post-mortem interval

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 531-540

  Moncur, Wendy ^a   Bikker, Jan ^a   Kasket, Elaine ^b   Troyer, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Coordination; End of life; Final disposition; Funerals; Thanatosensitive design; Victim identification

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COORDINATION; END OF LIVES; FINAL DISPOSITION; FUNERALS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862109176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2207750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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