Infrastructure and vocation: Field, calling and computation in ecology

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2873-2882

  Jackson, Steven J ^a   Barbrow, Sarah ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Ecology; Infrastructure; Science; Values in design; Vocation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT-CENTERED; COLLABORATION; COMPUTATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; INFRASTRUCTURE; SCIENCE; VOCATION;

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84877967955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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