Memento mori: Technology design for the end of life

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2759-2762

  Massimi, Michael ^a   Moncur, Wendy ^b   Odom, William ^c   Banks, Richard ^d   Kirk, David ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

death; dying; end of life; mortality; reflective practice; research methodology; thanatosensitive design

Indexed keywords

DEATH; DYING; END OF LIVES; MORTALITY; REFLECTIVE PRACTICES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862698730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2212714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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