Making "Making" accessible

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 635-638

  Hurst, Amy ^a   Kane, Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive Technology; Do It Yourself; Empowerment; Human Centered Computing; Online Communities; Personal scale Manufacturing; Rapid Prototyping

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DO-IT-YOURSELF; EMPOWERMENT; HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84880557486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2485760.2485883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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