'Digital motherhood': How does technology support new mothers?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 313-322

  Gibson, Lorna ^a   Hanson, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Motherhood; New mothers; Social support

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS; ETHNOGRAPHY; MOTHERHOOD; NEW MOTHERS; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877978424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2470700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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