Spirituality: There’s an App for That! (But Not a Lot of Research)

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2013-April, Issue , 2013, Pages 2315-2324

  Buie, Elizabeth ^a   Blythe, Mark ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Religion; Spirituality; Techno spirituality

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

APP STORES; HCI RESEARCHES; REAL-WORLD; RELIGION; RESEARCH PAPERS; SPIRITUAL PRACTICE; SPIRITUALITY; TECHNO-SPIRITUALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84887382489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2468754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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