Using online social networking to enhance social connectedness and social support for the elderly

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Goswami, Suparna ^a   Köbler, Felix ^a   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^a   Krcmar, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Human factors; Online communities; Social networks; Social ties

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NATURAL AGING; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL TIES; USER GROUPS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870972079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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