Designing for repair? Infrastructures and materialities of breakdown

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 319-331

  Rosner, Daniela K ^a   Ames, Morgan G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown; Design; Infrastructure studies; Maintenance; Materiality; One laptop per child; Public sites of repair; Repair; Sociotechnical systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DESIGN; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MAINTENANCE;

BREAKDOWN; INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIES; MATERIALITY; ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

REPAIR;

EID: 84898963003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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