The power of play: Design lessons for increasing the lifespan of outdated computers

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2735-2744

  Lomas, Derek ^a   Kumar, Anuj ^a   Patel, Kishan ^b   Ching, Dixie ^c   Lakshmanan, Meera ^e   Kam, Matthew ^d   Forlizzi, Jodi L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d American Institutes of Research   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Abandonware; Ethnography; Games; HCI4D; ICT4D; Obsolescence; Social computing; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ABANDONWARE; ETHNOGRAPHY; GAMES; HCI4D; ICT4D; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OBSOLESCENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84877996156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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