It feels better than filing: Everyday work experiences in an activity-based computing system

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 259-268

  Voida, Stephen ^a   Mynatt, Elizabeth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based computing; Collaboration; Deployment study; Giornata; Knowledge work; Multitasking; Tagging

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-BASED COMPUTING; COLLABORATION; DEPLOYMENT STUDY; GIORNATA; KNOWLEDGE WORK; TAGGING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERGONOMICS; MULTITASKING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84892460278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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