Exploring remembrance and social support behavior in an online bereavement support group

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1169-1179

  Massimi, Michael ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Grief; Remembrance; Social support; Support groups; Thanatosensitive design

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT; GRIEF; REMEMBRANCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUPS; THANATOSENSITIVE DESIGNS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84874833421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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