Struggling with gift-giving obligations: When mobile messages are too laborious to reciprocate

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 83-86

  Salovaara, Antti ^a  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gift giving; Messaging; Mobile multimedia; Non appropriation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; GIFT-GIVING; MESSAGING; MOBILE MULTIMEDIA; MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS; NON-APPROPRIATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 84900442365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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