Resilience through technology adoption: Merging the old and the new in Iraq

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 689-698

  Mark, Gloria ^a   Al Ani, Ban ^a   Semaan, Bryan ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Disrupted environments; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; CULTURAL PRACTICES; DISRUPTED ENVIRONMENTS; ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEWS; IRAQ WAR; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; REPAIR; TECHNOLOGY;

MERGING;

EID: 84892475492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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