"I want to imagine how that place looks": Designing technologies to support connectivity between Africans living abroad and home

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2755-2764

  Wyche, Susan P ^a   Chetty, Marshini ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Diaspora communities; Family communication; HCI4D ICTD; Interaction design; Research through design; Transnational

Indexed keywords

FAMILY COMMUNICATION; HCI4D/ICTD; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTERACTION DESIGN; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; TRANSNATIONAL; TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES;

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877995613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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