Modeling a user's culture

Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 242-264

  Reinecke, Katharina ^a   Bernstein, Abraham ^a   Schenkel, Sonja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84898295669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch011     Document Type: Chapter

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