The design of an online community for welfare recipients

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 38-41

  Bista, Sanat Kumar ^a   Colineau, Nathalie ^a   Nepal, Surya ^a   Paris, Cécile ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

online support group; virtual communities; welfare

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SERVICES; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE SUPPORT; UNIQUE FEATURES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WELFARE; WELFARE PAYMENT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872290049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2414536.2414543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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