Powering the cellphone revolution: Findings from mobile phone charging trials in off-grid Kenya

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1959-1968

  Wyche, Susan P ^a   Murphy, Laura L ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; HCI4D ICTD; Human factors; Human powered; Mobile phones; Off grid power; Rural Africa

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; HCI4D/ICTD; HUMAN-POWERED; LONG-TERM EVALUATION; OFF-GRID POWER; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; RURAL AFRICA;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84877963715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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