Anatomy of a failure: How we knew when our design went wrong, and what we learned from it

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2213-2222

  Gaver, William ^a   Bowers, John ^a   Kerridge, Tobie ^a   Boucher, Andy ^a   Jarvis, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure; Home; Interpretation; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; HOME; INPUT-OUTPUT MAPPING; INTERPRETATION; KNOW-THAT; TASK BASED APPROACH;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84892454322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1519040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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