Inside a digital experiment: Co-producing telecare services for older people

Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 3-26

  McLoughlin, Ian ^a   Maniatopoulos, Gregory ^b   Wilson, Rob ^c   Martin, Mike ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appropriation; Co production; Digital experiments; Telecare; User centered design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879529248     PISSN: 09050167     EISSN: 19010990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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