A buddy matching program to help build an online support network

Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-88

  Colineau, Nathalie ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

online support network; social matching

Indexed keywords

MATCHING ALGORITHM; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE SUPPORT; SOCIAL MATCHING; SUPPORT NETWORKS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872284129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2414536.2414550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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